Episode 63| Radically Connected with LaRayia Gaston, creator of Lunch On Me

LaRayia Gaston is the incredible creator of Lunch on Me. This fun, interactive, non-profit creates a strong community and create strong bonds between the homeless and the housed by providing fresh, organic foods for everyone in need. Love without reason is the heart of everything they do.

 

This girl is so incredible and she has the most amazing people working with her. She blew me away when I met her at Wanderlust. I saw the love, dedication and passion she has for this community, and I was floored.

 

LaRayia is one of the most inspirational people I’ve ever met. We spend time talking about her story and her insight into why we need to give, the importance of acknowledgement, and truly experiencing community.

 

Radically Connected LaRayia

 

• Working as an art director and giving her art purpose
• Creating a non-profit to end starvation in America
• Keeping volunteer work a secret and getting inspired when she shared it
• Setting her own standards for a non-profit and living up to it

 

Radically Inspired Clarity

 

• Instead of simply having gratitude about what you have, do what you can to help those who don’t have what you do.
• Little things won’t get to you when you keep in perspective what extreme hardships others are going through.

 

LaRayia Gaston Answers…

 

• What inspired you to take on starvation in America?
• How many people do you feed and how often?
• What have you learned the most since starting this non-profit?
• How has this impacted your life and how you view your life?

 

Radically Loved Quotes

 

“I think everything in my life pushed me to this place.”

 

“It’s just common sense to me. Someone’s hungry, I have enough to share.”

 

“Acknowledging everyone has changed my life. I want to be open and acknowledge anyone in my space.”

 

“My problems aren’t real problems, even hard things.”

 

A Little More About Our Guest

 

LaRayia has been volunteering and feeding the homeless for over 12 years. While serving, she’s experienced some of the most life altering moments. Her direct human encounter in poverty and starvation has taught her so much about life, people, community, love and tragedy. One of the most important things about LaRayia’s movement is that "Starvation being alive and well in America is only due to the neglect in redirecting food, that is often treated as waste" In order to make change happen, people have to be educated on the problem. Her mission is to integrate an interactive way to help, by using social media to bring communities together for the greater good. She’s here to end starvation, starting with America.  www.LunchOnMe.org