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MRS. RENITA BEAVERS LEONARD


Co-Owner, Leonard Services LLC Senior Managing Director, The Exceptional Youth Ministry Campground


Mrs. Leonard was born in Lincoln, AL, a tiny community, near the Talladega 500. After graduating Lincoln High School and working at the Police Dept. for a few years, she attended several colleges and universities for studies in Office Administration, License Practical Nursing, Associates in Early Child Development, Bachelor of Science in Human Resources, and Masters in Adult Education. Every job brought on challenges, excitement, but most importantly lessons that she was willing to learn to help others. From varies positions as police dispatcher, customer service rep., sales and marketing assistant, acct. receivable clerk, home health clerk, home health aide, lead teacher, dorm aide, dorm supervisor, online English teacher for Chinese students, and business owner. For the last 9 years Mrs. Leonard has been working together with her husband, Mr. Eddie Leonard, in their trucking business. They began with one straight truck and grew to a fleet of seven eighteen wheelers and by their choice have downsized to one truck that Mr. Leonard drives. Mrs. Leonard currently works as a coach teaching other drivers about the industry and assisting them with trucking authority, auditing with FMCSA and company finance, as Mr. Leonard coaches in dispatching and maintenance. In additional to working with Leonard Services, she is now working with The Exceptional Youth Ministry Campground helping young adults who are having issues finding their way in society with training in technology, cultivation, husbandry, culinary, and health. The campground will also assist with mental and substance abuse with the use of equestrian, music, art and counseling therapy. Leonard Services LLC, a minority women owned business, received the Small Business Success Story award from ASBDC in 2017. Mrs. Leonard also received the Who?s Who among American College Graduates in 2009, Phi Theta Kappa in 2003, and TESOL for teaching English online through VIPKID in 2019. The Leonards? have three children: Amber Beavers, Arlana Leonard, and Eddie Leonard III; two grandchildren: Brooklyn Beavers and Liberty Beavers 




You are a wife, mom, business and non-profit owner as well as a coach. What do you feel is your biggest accomplishment in life and why?  


My first honest answer as a person with ADD, and a perfectionist would be, I do not feel I have not accomplished anything. But as I think about it, my biggest accomplishment would be my family, I love my husband and children. That is hard work.



Why did you and your husband decide to become entrepreneurs and start Leonard Service LLC?  


Well Denise this is a great story, my husband worked many years, put his heart and soul into a job that did not give him the same respect. After being let go, he decided if he had the opportunity, he would go into business for himself. I had been in business as a daycare owner in my home so I knew what it would entail and I had been to entrepreneur school, I also had skills growing up with my dad selling everything from hogs, chicken, eggs, plup wood, Amway, you name it we sold it, my dad was a worker by day and entrepreneur by night. So, I dreamed at an early age of owning my own business. So, back to my husband, he started working minimum wage at this plant as a forklift operator and begin to see these trucks coming in, he inquired of the drivers and discovered they were the owners. He begins to network, and he SPOKE a vision that he would load his own trucks one day and he did.




What advice would you give to young people who are struggling in life?  


That is easy, the same advice I give my kids, hang in there, never give up. Know that YOUR time is coming, don't look at your friends and think you should be where they are or try to be who they are, be yourself, center yourself and keep a prayer life. 



What do you want your community to remember about you as your legacy?  


I want them to remember that she loved people. If I know you, I try to remember something special that you have said to me so when we meet again, I can ask about that person like your sister or that I am a giver. I am a natural born giver, type O, I can give to anyone, it hurts me when I can't give or help someone. I love people, always have.



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