Meet LaMarquita Leach

Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to LaMarquita Leach. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

LaMarquita , we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.

First of all I must say thank you for such an in-depth question.

How did I find my purpose?

Before I tell you I will say it’s going to be traumatic for some but it’s my story so I won’t say trigger warning. Empathize because imagine how I feel and what I carry.

I found my purpose as a child really as a baby when my father would beat and I mean literally beat me. I found my purpose as a child when I knew that I was the only one who could protect me.

I found purpose when I watched my 5 month old brother get killed in front of me by my birth father.

I found purpose after getting assaulted time and time again by my mothers boyfriends

I found purpose when I got rejected from my foster parents

I found purpose when I overcame addiction

I found purpose when I overcame abusive relationships

I found purpose when I wrote my book beating all the odds of the teachers telling my parents I’ll never make it past third grade because I was just too handicapped

I found purpose when I overcame homelessness and created my business around giving back and paying it forward

I found purpose when I was again asked by this amazing magazine if I’d tell my story and here I am able to do it. Mind you the day I found there email amongst the 5,000 I have I was having a really bad and emotional one. They say there’s things as coincidences in life but I don’t believe in those. It’s not a coincidence I was asked to tell my story again. I was born to do this

I found purpose when I got to partner with a place called the DAAbin store who literally gives me stuff they can’t sell to give out to the homeless

I found my purpose when people believed in me and who finally saw me and chose to give me a chance

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

I am a 28 year young Queer Black Native Woman.

What do I want the readers to know.

I think one of the biggest things I want the readers to know is my current goal right now.

To be here I had to overcome my past and while I’ll talk a bit about it throughout. I really want to focus on the future and what I can and will be doing to continue to lay down a path for the success of myself and others.

So I am and individual that was born I would say with one of the biggest hearts. And I mean that quite literally. The love I have for people is just something I could never explain in words.

I value human connections in ways people wouldn’t really understand. That wanting to connect is due to my reactive attachment disorder which is the lack of attention the mother fails to give her baby when it’s born.

While most people have always made having Rad a bad things because they say we don’t have healthy boundaries. I’m quite honestly someone who has an unhealthy amount of love for people who don’t care about me but I do them.

Empaths are individuals that takes on hurt in ways that truly isn’t healthy at times which is why giving to the homeless is what brought the balance I needed.

I have a business called UniQueen Creationz where I make all kinds of things. It started out as me mind you while I was homeless making soap for me and a few others. Since you know I didn’t really have money to keep spending on hygiene products. But shoot to make your own soap is really quite cheap. Plus being able to put together ingredients to be able to make my own product was important to me because the store didn’t have the stuff I needed for my eczema.

Let alone the social anxiety I would have asking someone to unlock the case and then having to wait until they helped me. So to rid myself of all that.
I started making my own stuff.

Besides this part of my business I also sew and have made a few things, I make candles, and jewelry, and I’ve written a book etc etc.

but this isn’t what I want to bring to your attention right now.

What I want to bring forward is my current goal which is to do a fundraiser where I want to get a food truck and a Rv to be able to use to continue to give back to the people.

See one thing about me is I never just think of myself. When i get this food truck I’m gone need cooks of all different backgrounds. I’m bout to be pulling homeless people off the streets to make this dream happen. If y’all even knew the amount of chefs homeless right now. Mind you chefs that cooked some of y’all’a meals but you won’t even give them a bottle of water.

Now watch every person that wasn’t give a chance to have an opportunity of a lifetime. I want to create work for people who have overcome. It’s time the world sees us.

Ouu I’m about to make them great. I mean this food truck is about to be the best food truck in the country. Why because it’s me GIRLL I’m TURNING my DREAMS into Visons can’t stop won’t stop and can’t no one stop me. I’ve been stopped enough. Now I need to be given a chance.

Like ludacris said. MOVE BITCH GET OUT MY WAY. All people deserve a second chance. I promise this ain’t just gone be a food truck. This is gone bring a type of togetherness YALL aint never seen watch.

With that being said support me or don’t support me it really ain’t gone hurt my feelings I have been through too much to care what people feel about me anymore.

I’m sucking up that depression shit and I’m making a way.
Idk what the next steps are but I know there coming soon. It’s a lot of planning and hard work.

All I know is listen if I can overcome homelessness, addiction, western medication addiction, depression, suicidal ideation, mental health hospitalizations, anxiety, generational trauma. Shit and I’ve written a book have a second and third one waiting to be published. What can’t I do. I AM TRULY UNSTOPPABLE. MANIFESTING TO BE GREAT DOESNT EVEN EXIST WHEN YOU WERE DESTINED TO BE A STAR

Really with that being said I want people to know my heart and that anything and everything I do is completely and utterly genuine. They thought that falsely committing me of a crime would stop me.

If there’s one thing I can say what truly doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger.

I am a living example of a Miracle and what it means to actually make it or break it. I no longer want to self destruct because I feel like I’m not good enough or accepting of help.

I will no longer doubt anything because the strength I need to be successful is truly within myself. So I’d truly hope people see me and just what I’ve done and have overcame and am still overcoming to be to be successful.

In the last few months after winning the award for upcoming community leader there’s something in me that has a drive to push for even more. Which I know I can

Thank you

Queen

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

Resilience is an amazing quality of mine. Being able to keep going after being pushed down time and time again. Being able to brush yourself off and walk away choosing to be the bigger person is a power some will never truly know.

My caring heart is a quality for it would be the things I do for others that keeps me blessed. That saying you can’t care for others before you care yourself doesn’t pertain to me. For I cannot and will not watch someone else suffer while knowing i may have something they need. Give unto others and you shall receive is something I truly believe. I give things that I don’t always have the ability to do because I’ve been there and it’s an awful feeling. I’ve used my own food stamps to feed others and went without because I saw they were hungrier then I was and needed them more. To be human you must empathize for its once you lack empathy a division is made.

The area of knowledge I have is this. When you truly realize what you have and become spiritually woke to the reality of life things truly change. So many people in life focused on what they don’t have when they have so much more then other people.

It saddens me because the heart I have is I become mentally unstable when I can’t give. I wish I was joking but I will quite literally go into manic episodes because when you realize your purpose in life nothing else matters. Watching people’s kids, family members, war veterans, chefs, nurses, teachers etc lose out on living life because the lack of resources breaks my heart.

It takes one person to care and I am her. What I’ve gone through most would have opted out but I stayed strong because after watching my 5 month old brother get killed in front of me at 3/1/2 made me change in ways only love can show.

Most people would have became angry which I was at first. Yet I didn’t actually know what that emotion was I know I blamed myself for not being able to save him but the love I have for him was stronger then the hate I had for my father and mother who were very sick.

My brother was born May 29 1999 I was born May 26 1997 I truly believe he’s here with me everyday and has helped me heal from that anger and turned it into love.

Being angry can be toxic and cause health issues and some more. Sometimes continuing to love even though it hurts the most is the only you can do for it’s the only thing that truly makes you feel free.

Okay, so before we go we always love to ask if you are looking for folks to partner or collaborate with?

I would absolutely love any and everyone to collaborate with me. The more people I have wanting to collaborate the accomplishment I can feel because I can actually know I’m making a difference.

I think the world needs more people that want to unite and change the world for the better. Either do something to change to your situation or quit ya bitching

Contact Info:

• Facebook: Quita Wallace/ Marquita Wallace