Frazier-Moore hosts Women Aware luncheon on "Dancing in the Rain"

COVID created a world where working from home and attending meetings electronically are the new normal, but area banker and community volunteer Christina Frazier-Moore feels people are losing track of themselves.

Frazier-Moore will present the first Women Aware luncheon since the pandemic at noon Wednesday, March 30, at the Greater Poplar Bluff Area Chamber of Commerce.

The title of her program, Dancing in the Rain, comes from watching her daughter dance in the rain and seeing a rainbow come out.

“When I was watching her, I’m like, why can’t I be more like her, carefree, not care my hair’s messed up, and I’m out for the whole world to see dancing in the rain, making my heart happy. That’s where it clicked with me to get back on track a little bit and start getting back out and doing the things I love and want to do."

Frazier-Moore stressed she wants to be careful, safe and mindful of the world, “but that didn’t mean that I had to lose track of myself.”

At the luncheon, she plans to discuss how to be successful when you get down and making the best of things.

“I love helping others succeed,” she said. “It probably helps me more than it helps them. The basis is wanting to help empower women, feel better about themselves and know that they’re not alone and go through challenges in life whatever they might be.”

Frazier-Moore explains, “I’ve been through the wringer myself in numerous ways. At the time they were heartbreaking experiences. Now I look back and I know God placed them in my life for a reason and that’s to help other people. I want to pass along encouragement, support, have fun while I’m at it and meet new people and grow in that realm.”

Five years ago her daughter shared something that happened to her, which “got me thinking about how the girls growing up really need strong mentors to be able to have self confidence and know it’s okay to be weird and different and to dance to the beat of their own drum.”

Fraizer-Moore spoke with Candace Warren, principal at the Poplar Bluff Junior High School.

“I thought junior high’s probably a pretty good age and I asked if I could start a club, talking to the girl about kindness, self esteem and life challenges nobody really wants to talk about.”

When Warren agreed, Fraizer-Moore formed the club Chi and Company at the junior high.

Attending the club is strictly volunteer.

“They could come or they could not come,” she said. “They could come to one or they could come to all of them whatever they wanted. I spoke to them in like 25 minute sessions. I would usually have a guest speaker with me. I would talk about real life, whatever topic kind of came up.”

Chi and Company is completely separate from her banking career, she said.

“I have done anywhere from marketing and banking, to employee training, to mortgages,” Frazier-Moore said. “Now I still do mortgages, but I am vice president, mortgage sales manager at The Bank of Missouri. I still produce loans, but I have a team of about 30 mortgage loan officers and assistants I manage and I’m responsible for a budget.”

Her husband is Clayton Moore and her children are Jackson Rains and Mackenzie Moore.

Frazier-Moore graduated from high school in the small rural town of Eminence, Missouri, Three Rivers College in Poplar Bluff and Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau.

The last day to register for the luncheon is Monday, March 28. The tickets are $12.

To register email Davine Conover at davine@ozarkfcu.com or text her at 573-4129-1780.

Conover said, Ozark Federal Cedit Union sponsors the luncheons.

“We are happy to be able to meet again for the luncheons after such a long hiatus,” Conover said. “It is a privilege to organize the luncheons and work with local speakers to encourage the ladies in our community. People helping people is the credit union philosophy, and this is why we sponsor so many of the Women Aware events.”