Mr. Mosley, I really appreciate you and your understanding of the youth that we work with at the Dallas County Juvenile Department. Your creation of the Hour of Empowerment Program has helped over 30 young men. Your speaking at the Youth Village and Medlock campus has positively affected the lives of over 100 young men.
I really enjoy watching you work with the young men (12 to 17 years of age in the Hour of Empowerment (H.O.E.) classes. How you relate to them, how they relate to you and how you get them to overcome their fears and speak in front of their peers is life changing.

Gene’s talk at Youth Village Juvenile Detention Center during his hour of empowerment program intrigued the young men residing in the facility. They listened very intently and asked several questions, with the most important question being, “When are you coming again?” I think your telling story captures the emotions of many and your presence inspires the young men who need positive influences the most.

Thank you Gene!! The students absolutely loved it your presentation!!! A lot of them had wonderful things to say about you and all you shared with them. I am very glad you got to talk to them. Thank you for sharing your time with us. I would definitely recommend you to the staff I work with at the high schools and the drug prevention programs!

Awesome Presentation! There are not enough people willing to do the work that you do. To be able to relate to these kids and forge a relationship to change their lives is truly changing the world. I believe you can make a genuine impact in the lives of at-risk youth.

Gene, it was great listening to your story. It was a reminder of my own childhood with an absent father. I’m thankful to God for putting your substitute teacher in your life. I was blessed to have strategic folks placed in my life as well. May God Bless your work.

“Gene Mosley’s talk with our group was very uplifting and inspiring. We work with a group of inner-city at-risk youth and keeping them engaged and entertained can at times be a challenging task. Gene was very professional and down to earth at the same time. His life’s experiences enable him to relate to this demographic in a very powerful way. From start to finish, he kept the attention of our young men and women, they excitedly asked questions and some are now motivated to have a success story just like Gene Mosley. I would highly recommend Gene Mosley to speak to your group with no reservations.”

“Mr. Gene Mosley gave our BMHS AVID Family the gift of his time and wisdom.  Spending an entire day with us, he shared raw personal experiences, building relational capacity and connecting to the hearts and minds of my AVID students.  With a healthy infusion of comedy, he walked the children towards understanding the importance of finding the “value of your life”, so that you can become a valuable success story.  Gene’s “real talk” pertained to never giving up, overcoming fear of failure, and catapulting towards college and career readiness no matter the obstacles in your path.  The young minds, the future of our country, were in Gene’s hands that day, and he handled them with care, answering every question, inspiring and educating young men and women destined to be first generation graduates.  Leaving us to ponder his statement, “I wouldn’t change anything in my life- even the bad.” Heads and tails above all of our speakers for the 2015-2016 school year.  We thank you Gene Mosley!-”

Mr. Gene Mosley’s recent speech at The Young Men’s Leadership Academy at Fred Florence MS entitled Becoming a Valuable Success Story was a huge hit with our students and staff.  The subject matter was very appropriate for our students and it seemed, by their reactions and participation, that they bought into Mr. Mosley’s story and message.  His message of finding value in oneself and being receptive when others recognize that value was empowering to our students and hopefully will spur our young men to make themselves a valuable success story instead of a statistic.  Beyond his presentation, Mr. Mosley was prepared and ready to adjust his presentation to meet our allotted time slots.  He did a great job of editing his speech to hit time constraints and to most appropriately connect to the audience.  We asked Mr. Mosley to give the same speech to three different audiences in back to back time slots.  He was a true professional and delivered the speech with the same amount of enthusiasm and passion each time.  I highly recommend Mr. Mosley as a guest speaker and I look forward to welcoming him back to Yong Men’s Leadership Academy at Fred Florence MS.

Mr. Mosley, let me take a few moments to share with you some of the feedback I’ve heard from our students regarding your “Red Ribbon Week Assembly” “Mrs. Jones, where did you get that Mr. Mosley from? He was on it! I’m glad he was able to get out.” “Mrs. Jones, is that “Drug Free” man going to come back to speak to us? I missed his show and heard he was good.” “I know someone who smoked for years and was not able to kick the habit. I’m going to tell him about that man we heard the other day. He needs get out of that life!” “Mrs. Jones, I see devastation that weed can have.” I noticed that our students were engaged and listened. I wish we had more time for each assembly so your end message could have been sealed. I have been using part of your message with students who I suspect use… “It’s difficult to control our emotions when you are under the influence of drugs/alcohol. This has been helpful given the students received your message so well. Thank You for being the voice of Realism and Encouragement!

~Gene~

I would just like to commend you on the service of your presentation to our community youth. Our youth needed to hear about struggles and how real they are to everyone, the circumstances of life do not discriminate and you articulated this to our youth! Not only did you show them this, you taught them how they can self correct destructive behavior and prevent it from affecting their future. I would like to thank you for teaching our youth how to be a success story!

Mr. Mosley came to share his powerful story at our “Career Day” event on campus. His honesty and ability to relate to others was very appealing to the young men, and they really took well to his words of wisdom. There is definitely a shortage of individuals with the social and emotional intelligence to effectively work with our young minds, but we are grateful that one of the best came to spend time with us and we would definitely have him to come speak again.

I think Gene was very knowledgeable and has some of the best public speaking skills I’ve ever seen. UNT should provide workshops with him leading them because there are plenty of students who struggle with these specific communication skills.

Gene impressed me with his storytelling skills and vast knowledge in public speaking and business. I think his expertise would bring so much value to this campus. I will definitely be attending his workshops!