At 21, Katie Moore graduated from Roanoke College with a degree in Sociology, “which I’m pretty sure is code for I have no idea what I want to do with my life but I want to make the world a better place.” Soon after, she joined the Peace Corps and was assigned to Cameroon, Africa. Her time abroad was cut short by health and safety concerns, forcing a sudden choice: stay with another family or return home. “So, I flipped a coin. Heads I stay. Tails I go. It was heads. My gut and my mind in unison said, ‘Two out of three.’” In that moment, Katie chose to go home.

Returning to the United States brought a new chapter. She reconnected with a boy she had met before her senior year of college, and a whirlwind romance followed. “It was easy. In my eyes then, he was perfect. We bought a house at 22. We were married at 23. Had our first baby at 24. Another at 27. And twins at 29 years old.” Life quickly became a balancing act. Full, beautiful, and exhausting.

After years of navigating marriage, motherhood, and personal uncertainty, Katie found herself at a crossroads. She had spent 12 years as a stay-at-home mom while pursuing side hustles as a yoga instructor and writer, endeavors that “made about enough money to buy two lattes a month, which is of course is happy, but here was no way that I could support a family on it.” Her marriage ended in 2016, leaving Katie with four children, bills, and the urgent need for a career that would allow her to be present for her family.

“I had an 11-year-old, a 9-year-old and 7-year-old twins with bills to pay and in need of a career where I could get them on and off on the bus and be home on the snow days and the sick days and the early dismissal days and the sports and activities,” she recalls. A friend, top-producing agent Jen Novak, offered encouragement: “If you choose to do real estate, I will not let you fail. And that was everything that I needed to hear to get my license.”

Katie began her real estate career in 2017 while also writing for Baltimore Real Producers magazine, later contributing to DC and NOVA editions. “Success does leave tremendous clues. If you had told me then that one day I would be on the cover, I don’t know that I would have believed you. To myself nine years ago, just keep going. It will all be worth it. Promise.”

The early years were challenging. Katie describes evenings spent at her dining room table, calculating bills, expenses, and dwindling funds, sometimes watching the numbers slip into the red. “In July of 2019, after leaving a walk-through of a beautiful condo, I noticed I was almost out of gas… I had to call my mom and ask her to Venmo me $50 for gas and I would pay her back as soon as that settlement check came in. That was a pain point.” She borrowed from her children’s piggy banks, sold her television for groceries, and said “no” countless times. Yet, in the midst of scarcity, she found resilience. “Escape and denial are easier paths but not much growth happens there. I knew I was the only one who could give my kids a happy mother who loves life. I changed my thinking and that is what changed my life.”

Katie now serves as an individual agent with Engel & Völkers in Annapolis, achieving recognition as a Diamond agent and ranking in the top three for sales volume, with an average sales price of $952,642 in 2025. “I love being an individual agent. My biggest competition is who I was yesterday. I want to be ever evolving, always improving, wanting to make the world better, wanting to be a better mother, a better agent, a better friend, a better human.”

Outside of work, Katie loves spending time with her four children, Lucy (21), Niko (19), and twins Sophia and Micah (16), and showing them the world through travel. She also enjoys mornings with black tea, sunrises over the ocean, pen in hand, writing her next book, and winding down with a good novel in the evening.

Real estate, Katie says, has allowed her to reclaim control over her life and her dreams. “Real estate has awoken the fire within me that there is no cap on how much we can dream and that we each have the ability within us to shape those dreams into reality.” Her advice for those starting out is rooted in mindset and authenticity: “Likeability will get you further than experience ever will. Keep being authentically you. And beginning your day with gratitude, affirmations and movement is a simple and powerful way to make space for more wins to come into your world.”

For Katie Moore, growth has never come from comfort. “Fall seven times. Stand up eight,” she shares, quoting a Japanese proverb. And her own tagline? “You Deserve Moore.”