LaRayia Gaston: Love Without Reason

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

LaRayia Gaston is a former model, actress, and the founder of the nonprofit Lunch On Me, an organization dedicated to offering organic, healthy food and holistic healing to those experiencing homelessness. She’s also a regular public speaker, podcast guest, and activist. She filmed a documentary, 43 Days on Skid Row, which shows her time living with LA’s Skid Row residents and offers up a true picture of what life is really like in one of America’s largest homeless communities. In this podcast, Sounds True founder Tami Simon speaks with LaRayia about her new book, Love Without Reason. They discuss the superpower called “love”; why connection and empowerment are central to ending hunger; gratitude as an action, not just an attitude; transforming our “withholding” and scarcity mindsets; seeing humanity “on every corner, in every person”; and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by SoundsTrue.
0:05.5	My name is Tammy Simon, I'm the founder of SoundsTrue, and I'd love to take a moment
0:10.0	to introduce you to the new SoundsTrue Foundation.
0:14.1	The SoundsTrue Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser and kinder world by making
0:20.6	transformational education widely available.
0:24.9	We want everyone to have access to transformational tools such as mindfulness, emotional awareness,
0:33.8	and self-compassion, regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges.
0:40.2	The SoundsTrue Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to providing these transformational tools
0:46.7	to communities in need, including at-risk youth, prisoners, veterans, and those in developing
0:53.6	countries.
0:54.9	If you'd like to learn more or feel inspired to become a supporter, please visit SoundsTrueFoundation.org.
1:08.3	You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
1:11.0	Today my guest is LaRaya Gaston.
1:14.3	LaRaya is a former model actress and founder of the nonprofit Lunch on Me, an organization
1:21.4	dedicated to feeding organic healthy food to those experiencing homelessness.
1:27.9	She filmed a documentary 43 days on Skid Row, which shows her time living in Los Angeles's
1:35.1	Skid Row area, and it shows a true picture of what life is really like in one of America's
1:42.5	largest homeless communities.
1:45.5	It sounds true, LaRaya is the author of a new book it's called Love Without Reason,
1:52.8	the Lost Art of Giving a Fuck.
1:56.1	Love Without Reason is a book that quite honestly blew my heart open as does this conversation
2:03.8	with the immensely generous and loving LaRaya Gaston.
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