In this episode of Hello Chaos, Kristin Quattlebaum, founder of KQ Unplugged, shares her journey from the structured corporate world to the unpredictable, yet deeply rewarding life of entrepreneurship. Kristin opens up about the transformative power of self-discovery, the challenges of shadow work, and what it really means to lead with authenticity. She dives into the importance of tuning out the noise, leaning into intuition, and building a strong sense of community to navigate the twists and turns of the founder's journey. Kristin also reveals the rituals and practices that keep her grounded, offering listeners a candid look at how truth-telling and courage can lead to fulfillment in work—and life. This episode is packed with unfiltered insights and inspiring takeaways for anyone ready to embrace the chaos and carve out their own path.
Key Takeaways
✨💪Be Unapologetically You
Kristin reminds us that breaking free from systems and beliefs that don’t align with who we truly are is essential. Founders, especially, need to own their unique energy—it’s their greatest strength in a world full of pressure to conform.
🌑🔄Turn Shadows into Strengths
Instead of "fixing" weaknesses, Kristin highlights the power of shadow alchemy: recognizing fears and insecurities and understanding how they shape our actions. This self-awareness leads to clarity and growth, both personally and professionally.
🛤️🌟Trust the Process
Kristin’s leap from corporate life to entrepreneurship wasn’t easy—financial strains and self-doubt tested her resolve. But her unwavering trust in her purpose is a powerful reminder that even the toughest moments are steps in your unique journey.
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction to Chaos and Foundership
06:03 Understanding Shadow Alchemy and Personal Growth
13:33 Myths and Misconceptions of Being a Founder
18:58 Aha Moments and Signs from the Universe|
24:51 Expanding Horizons: The Desire for International Experience
30:32 Working with Closet Visionaries
38:29 Recognizing and Embracing One's Unique Gifts
Connect with Kristin:
Website: https://www.kqunplugged.co/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kquattl/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rewildingkq
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6vg-40DuCGXYPaCOBVm6kw?view_as=subscriber
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (00:14)
Welcome to Hello Chaos, the weekly podcast exploring the messy and chaotic minds and lives of founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs. We are a weekly podcast. publish every single Sunday, so founders come and check us out to listen to the ah-hahs and the oh-shits and the real, unvarnished stories of founders. Today, our guest is Kristin Quattlebaum, or Kristin Q.
She is the founder of KQ Unplugged. has been a disruptor in leadership and industry norms, and she helps others to discover and stand unapologetically for who the fuck they are. Welcome to Hello Chaos, Kristin. I've been looking forward to this for a while now, and I cannot wait to hear how you got to where you are. So just start us out. Tell us about your journey.
Kristin Quattlebaum (01:06)
yeah, thank you so much for having me for the invitation to be here. Goodness. So I always start with I was in corporate for 15 years. So when I got out of college, I really just went on my career path. I didn't want anything else in life but to climb to the top of the ladder and then move forward with my life. what I found along the way was that I couldn't quite find where I belonged.
And so I was constantly, was hustling to achieve things and get promoted and all the things and I was recognized a lot and that was great, but I wasn't fulfilled along the way. So while I had all the accolades for it, I...
I just wasn't feeling happy. And so I thought that something was wrong with me. I thought that, you know, I was the one person in the world that couldn't find their purpose path. When everyone around me seemed to know I want to be an accountant, I want to be a physical therapist, like whatever their path was, they seemed to understand that. And where I was on this journey of exploration, I kept hitting these walls of, well, I thought that was it, but I guess that's not it. And I'm not happy here and I need to move on and do something else. And so
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (02:08)
All
Yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (02:22)
Through that journey, actually in my around 30, so I think that's like Saturn return time, like around 30, I got into an accident and it triggered anxiety in my body. And so I not experienced any anxiety prior to that and I ended up going into therapy at that time.
Therapy started unraveling, really giving me permission to express myself, to feel my emotions and to really stand for what I wanted. And then therapy, just like with everything else, I ran into this wall of, I'm not feeling like I'm getting anything out of this now, so I need to move on. So I hired a coach. I started meditating. Meditation opened my intuitive gifts. And so now here I am.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (03:08)
Right.
Kristin Quattlebaum (03:18)
For a while now I was calling myself a purpose guide and healer. And now recently I've unraveled this new title called True Seer and Shadow Alchemist. So my work is really about helping people to dismantle and detach from all the systems and beliefs and all the things that they're attached into that don't represent who they truly are. And then as you said, have the courage to be who the fuck they are in the world.
That's what I love doing. And through that, it is a lot of holding space for truth through the intuitive world and then also that shadow alchemy. So really just alchemizing those fears along the way that we all face. So yeah, that's a bit about where I'm at now.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (04:06)
Very good. So when you talk about the shadow alchemy and the journey is fascinating of really self-discovery and we talk a lot of that with founders of, know, as you kind of move from being an employee or employed into a space where you are not just taking a risk on yourself but you're also putting other people's.
happiness and joy and their purpose in you know in your path and in you know kind of take responsibility for that And a lot of founders go through this self-discovery Process and You know just for me when you hit when I hear shadow the shadow alchemy and If I'm if I'm on not on the wrong the right path just correct me, but when I hear that it's like when
You learn all about your strengths and who you really are. Don't try to discover or don't try to fix your weaknesses. Just be aware of them and know how. I think I've done every test under the sun of Myers-Briggs to P.I. to Strengthfinder to, I mean, I'm like five or six of them. And they all are repetitive to me.
Kristin Quattlebaum (05:19)
you
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (05:31)
one of them stood out and said, know, John, these are your strengths, but you really need to recognize your weaknesses are your shadows. And they, you know, you need to at least acknowledge them, know that how those can generate consequences based on, you know, the actions that you have. And so you just gotta find that balance. Is that kind of finding, is that the shadow alchemy is discovering those weaknesses about you and just recognizing that or is it in?
completely different.
Kristin Quattlebaum (06:03)
I would say that the, so to me the shadow alchemy is more of the, what are the fears? How are we actually getting in our own way and stopping ourselves from moving forward? Where is that sabotage coming in? And it's really like looking deeply at where does that come from and then alchemizing that. So transforming it energetically so that we can move forward in a space of truth as opposed to conditioning.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (06:14)
Okay.
Okay, so I look at that as I am a term that I've learned this year is a learned extrovert. I'm a natural introvert, but I know I need to perform and be to show energy, but also just to build those relationships, because it's not natural for me. I don't know if it's rooted in fear, it's just more of insecurities, I guess.
Kristin Quattlebaum (06:52)
Mm-hmm.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (07:01)
So is that kind of understanding that kind of, and you've got to transform yourself. And I'm more like I'm doing things that are making me more comfortable in those settings, but it's not natural. I just have to work a little bit harder. I have to learn those practices. And then I find that I'm finding joy in some of them, but it's just, it's taken me what 30 years and being in the workforce of I've been hiding.
Kristin Quattlebaum (07:03)
Yeah, that's.
Mm-hmm. That's really interesting, right? It brings up the question of, is introversion really conditioned? Or is it your natural way of being? And if it is your natural way of being, then I would want to encourage you to find ways to honor that and not be forcing, how can I be extroverted? Because I don't think that.
you have to be extroverted in this world, right? It's just like not everybody is meant to be an advocate out in the world, right? So who are you and what does your energy represent and how do you want to express that in the world? So that would, it kind of teeters a line, right, of is this actually who I am? And to your point about unraveling the insecurities, I think yes, like.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (08:04)
Right.
Yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (08:23)
go deep with those and unravel them. But at the end of the day, if you unravel those and still feel like I'm drained by being around a lot of people, you're honoring your true nature.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (08:30)
Mm-hmm.
Right. Interesting. So what has been the most rewarding part of this journey for you?
Kristin Quattlebaum (08:48)
Honestly, I would say my tenacity, being able to recognize my own tenacity and that I always have my back, that I am, I can do anything and the path is up to me really. I can pivot if I need to, can shift direction. I don't have to explain myself to anyone and.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (09:05)
Yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (09:16)
Yeah, it's really been a testament of me not giving up on myself.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (09:22)
What do you think has been the most challenging aspect of entering into this space of foundership?
Kristin Quattlebaum (09:32)
It's almost like buying a house. When I bought my first house, nobody really tells you about what does it mean to own a house and all the things that come up, right? It's the same thing with entrepreneurship. Nobody really gets into all the things that are going to come up. And if you're willing to face...
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (09:34)
Yeah
Yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (09:52)
your own shadows, if you're willing to face what's in your way and how you're getting in your way and how you're really limiting yourself. It can be a real journey of transformation if you allow it to be. There's also, I believe, another path that people can take.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (09:54)
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (10:10)
And they can just fit in like you were saying, like just do the things to fit in and in the strategies they think they need to do and act the way they think they need to act and hustle their way to a business that ultimately is not really aligned with their energy. And then people wonder why they don't, they're not motivated.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (10:27)
Right.
Right, or they're not, they're not, I would call it vibing out. Like people aren't just coming to you. I mean, because I think energy, when you kind of cross section your purpose, your passion, and then the impact that you can have on an industry, in somebody's business, or what, mean, I think that's where magic happens. And I think people feel that and are attracted to that. So I think there's a lot to say about that.
Kristin Quattlebaum (10:40)
Yeah.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (11:02)
that energy piece and defined it. And that's what we've seen and we've talked to so many founders. I feel like when people get into this, that's one of the most beautiful parts about being a founder, I think, is we all go through some transformation. We all kind of go deeper. We learn things about ourselves that we've never thought that we'd learn about our limits.
Kristin Quattlebaum (11:04)
I agree.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (11:28)
or that we are limitless, we have more courage than we thought we had, we have more tenacity than we thought we had. And I think that's just a testament of a personality trait that makes founders founders. I think, I've just heard so many stories of the, I learned so much and I've transformed because of what I've learned.
Kristin Quattlebaum (11:41)
Hmm
Yeah, I agree. It's really the measure that I think keeps people going. Like the reason they, I don't know if that statistic that people fail in the first five years is still a thing. But, and I just hit like five, I'm like five and a half years old now. Yeah, thank you. It is.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (12:06)
It is.
Yeah, congratulations, that's a milestone. Yeah. I like, celebrated 10 years in 2013, so excuse me, 2023. it was, you know, we had a little celebration. It was good. Yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (12:26)
Yeah, it is. It's a big deal. But I think that's the thing that keeps people going. Like you always have a choice when it gets hard to say, maybe this isn't for me. If you've ever read the book, The Slight Edge, that's what it's about. It talks about how people often oscillate between this. I'm in this space of like, shit, right? That shit moment, like you would say. So they do enough to like,
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (12:35)
That's right.
Right? Like, what have I done?
Kristin Quattlebaum (12:54)
What do I, where can I get to survive? Like where I feel like I can survive here now. And then they go back down into that, shit, I need to do something. And then they're back into that survival. And he talks, he basically says that if you just kept doing that thing that got you to survival, you would basically end up in thriving.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (13:00)
Yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (13:15)
And only like, I don't know if it's 1%, 3%, 5 % of people in the world actually do that. But most people just journey through that oscillation. And that's what I think that tenacity is. It's that not giving up. yeah.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (13:29)
Mm, yeah.
man, do you think there's myths out there about what it means to be a founder? Were there things that you had thought or had heard and then you entered into the world and were like, that is not what I thought it was gonna be.
Kristin Quattlebaum (13:45)
Hahaha
I think that I thought it was gonna be easier than it was. And I'm...
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (13:55)
Yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (13:59)
You know, I'm a quick learner. I've always excelled in the work that I've done. And so to hit the ground running and have to really build everything from scratch, it is a lot more than you think it's gonna be. It's a lot more than I have this great idea and let's put it out into the world. And then the other thing I would say,
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (14:14)
Yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (14:28)
just in general, it's just the industry standard is really unraveling from those, right? So for me, as a coach, what are other coaches doing? And do I need to really tap into that to be successful? Because you see all these success stories, but a lot of times it's presented in ways that I'm not interested in presenting myself.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (14:49)
Yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (14:51)
you know, to your point about putting yourself out there. Like I've experimented and tried a lot of those things, but I've always come back to what's in alignment for me. So I would say the biggest things are that it's not quite as easy as you think it would be. And then the second thing is that you have to comply to industry standards or practices to be successful.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (15:17)
To kind of at least look like the, to get your foot in the door and then you can disrupt from there. What are some of the things like for your industry that you see that you're like, this is not, this shouldn't be a norm but it is. Is there anything like that that you see? You're like, why is this normal?
Kristin Quattlebaum (15:42)
One of them is telling people how much you make. That's one thing, right? So a lot of coaches will put, you know, I just had a $200,000 day or week or month, right? Or I just, you know, had a, I took my launch from a 10,000 launch to a $1 million launch and.
You know, I don't know. It's an interesting question. It's something that I feel.
is more of a way of proving, you know? Like proving themselves and saying, is what I do. And those sort of results aren't normal.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (16:17)
Yeah.
Right. It's like what we see in the entrepreneurial world of like the unicorns of this, you know, this idea, this, you know, was sold for 300 million and people are like, I'm gonna do that and I'm gonna make, you know, big money and it's like, well, one that could take 10, 20 years to get that through that it's not normal. It's not normal. They don't act like the other 99 % of us out there. Yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (16:35)
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. And I think it creates a lot of comparison for people. And thinking they're not successful, right? Because they're not having results like that. But my journey was a bit different in that coming from corporate, I I was making the money. I was making all the money. And so when I
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (16:57)
Yeah.
Right.
Kristin Quattlebaum (17:13)
step back and decided to build my business, well the universe actually pushed me out of corporate. I had two positions eliminated within a year of each other. And so I took it as a sign to get out. But at that point I wasn't building just for the money, because I already had that and I wasn't happy. So I was building for my own fulfillment and happiness. So I built slower. And I think that's the other thing is pace.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (17:31)
Right.
Kristin Quattlebaum (17:39)
Right is going at your own pace and trusting that everything is happening for you in perfect timing that you don't.
You know, you don't have to build a million dollar company in a year like someone else maybe did, you know, because are they in alignment? Are they just hustling their way through and following all these strategies that don't feel good to them? Maybe they're burning out. Maybe they'll be sick. You know, so many I've witnessed so many people that I've I've followed in the industry that will disappear for a year because now they're off like doing their healing journey because they hustled their way and to burn out or major sickness.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (18:15)
Right.
Kristin Quattlebaum (18:17)
And so I'm not building that way.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (18:20)
Yeah, now that's a good lesson too of kind of know what kind of business you want for yourself. Because there's some people that get in the business, like if you want to exit, that's a different path versus it's more of a lifestyle. And you've got to kind of know that when you go into it. This is something I want to do because I want to balance with family or I some control over my life.
So I think everybody has to have that reality check when they decide to start something, whatever that is. So what was your biggest like, aha moment, your big breakthrough of this is the right place for me?
Kristin Quattlebaum (18:58)
Mm-hmm.
Hmm.
Gosh, did I have like a big moment? I feel like...
Everything that I do when I do events, when I have sessions with people, I'm always checking in for that alignment. I'm always checking in. I don't know if it's like this big moment that I had. There's nothing coming through right now as far as that, yes, this is the right path.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (19:40)
Yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (19:44)
so it's two things for me. The first thing is, after I host an event or have a session with somebody, just the feeling that I feel like I know this is my purpose. I know I'm exactly where I'm meant to be. That's one thing. The other thing is angel numbers. So like 11 11, two 22, three 33, just seeing them along my journey to me has been a sign that I'm exactly where I'm meant to be.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (20:01)
Talk about that, yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (20:13)
So I don't spend a lot of time interpreting them and in the moments when I've been struggling or having a hard time and I see an angel number and I know exactly where I'm meant to be, right? I just sold my car and got a more expensive car.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (20:30)
You
Kristin Quattlebaum (20:31)
And on my way to clean my car from selling it to family, on my way to clean my car for my aunt, I was 11, 11. And then when I pulled my car up for her, had 111 miles to E. And so little things like that I take as like, wow, this is like, yeah, I'm exactly where I'm meant to be. And those are the two things that really just.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (20:48)
The universe is saying, yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (20:57)
continue to affirm for me I'm exactly where I'm meant to be.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (21:01)
Have you had any of those like big shit moments that you're like, no, I don't know how to do this or how do I, like you said, if you go kind of these oscillating moments of ups and downs, were there any that were just like, my goodness, what have I done? Or what has the universe done? Or what are they trying to tell me?
Kristin Quattlebaum (21:11)
Yeah.
Hahaha
Yeah, mean, I've had a few of those moments, a lot of it to deal with money, right? So draining my savings out. I kind of got to a place where I thought, and I didn't completely, I never completely drained my savings, but I did rely on it quite a bit.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (21:31)
Yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (21:50)
I got to a point where I was applying for jobs and then I pulled back and I said, no, like I'm just doing this out of fear and I need to stay exactly where I am because I don't believe that I can actually fail if I'm here on earth doing what I'm meant to do. Like I'm here fulfilling my purpose. So how can I actually fail?
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (22:01)
Yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (22:14)
And I just need to have unwavering faith in that process. So that was a real test for me a couple of times. I did actually start looking for jobs a couple of times, and then I pulled back. And I never went through with interviewing or getting another job. So it was a lot of round money. There was something else that came up that when you asked that, what was that?
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (22:17)
Yeah.
Yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (22:41)
I lost it.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (22:44)
That's right. I'm sure it'll come back up. If you had to hit rewind, would you change anything? Would you do anything different?
Kristin Quattlebaum (22:54)
No. No, I wouldn't. I really believe that everything is happening for us. Even being in corporate for 15 years, there's so much of what I learned there. And it's really beautiful to see the work that I've done there also translate into what I'm doing now, but in a different way.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (23:08)
That's right.
Kristin Quattlebaum (23:22)
I remember the thing that I was going to say. And it was about, as I've traveling, I mentioned to you before we started recording, I've been traveling the last four years. And I have made commitments in some spaces and then had like the rug ripped out from under me, right? So I've decided I'm going to stay in Louisiana for six months now. And with this agreement that I'm going to work with this yoga studio and then have that just, you know, guess what? We're not going to work together anymore.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (23:30)
Yeah.
Ew.
Ooh, yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (23:52)
I've had moments like that happen where I'm like, why am I here then? What am I doing here? What do I need to learn? And what ended up coming through there actually was one of my gifts opened up and I connected to the land of Louisiana very powerfully. And also in that time too, I connected with Molokai in Hawaii. And I don't know that that would have happened if I didn't just lean in and trust that that's where I was meant to be.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (24:21)
That's right. Yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (24:23)
But those are moments that you're like, okay, like my, what I thought was gonna be bringing money in while I was here is no longer happening. So now what, you know, I need to pivot. Yeah.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (24:30)
Right. What happens? What do we have to do? Yeah. So if you had if you could change two things about your business today, like, you know, no limits, what two things would you change?
Kristin Quattlebaum (24:51)
I would be more international. So I've served 21 countries now, which is amazing. But I would expand that even more. So I would be more international. And
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (25:02)
That is amazing, yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (25:13)
I would also say, along that note, I would have more travel experience internationally under my belt. Because part of what I feel I'm meant here to do is actually to immerse with other cultures and pick up their traditions and what are their healing modalities. And as I said, I connected to the land in Louisiana, right? So what?
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (25:36)
Yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (25:38)
what am I gonna pick up while I go to other countries? My gifts have opened as I've traveled and it's been really amazing, right? So I think what that sounds like is that I would sort of fast forward my path a little bit. And I don't know if that's what I meant to do, but I mean, if you said no limits, like that's where I would be right now. Yes.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (25:54)
Yeah, yeah.
No limits, that's right. We're manifesting right now, right? And then when you say you open up the gifts and you connect, are there rituals that you have learned from these different cultures that you've really brought into your own practice of daily, whether it's stress relievers or, you know,
know, mindset shifts, anything like that, you're like, hey, this is things that I've learned, but I'm gonna take these on personally now.
Kristin Quattlebaum (26:37)
Mm-hmm. One of the things that I learned on my journey was from an 80-year-old mystic in Oklahoma City. she, this was amidst the pandemic, and I went to her house and she did an initiation with me. So she opened my high heart chakra and my knee chakras and my hand chakras. And
She gave me access to all her teachings and she said, you're a teacher, go out and teach the world this work. You can have access to everything that I've channeled since I was 40. The last 40 years, like here's all my teaching. And one of the things that she taught me was this grounding and protection exercise. And I actually teach it everywhere I go. I do it every day as well. It's a...
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (27:02)
Wow.
Kristin Quattlebaum (27:25)
It's a practice that a lot of people who are very sensitive to energy will say to me, I actually can't read your energy. And I think it's just a testament of how protected I am. And she told me that. She said very few people in the world will be able to penetrate your aura. And so it's funny with your pod. I was thinking about this, your podcast name and just the.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (27:42)
Wow.
Kristin Quattlebaum (27:52)
everything going on in the world. I feel like, I feel like I've been telling client, like clients will tell me how like emotional they're feeling and stuff like that. And I'll, I found myself saying like, there's a lot of intense energy right now. And that for a time was kind of, you know, like rollercoastering. And, and now I feel like we're just climbing this hill. Like it just keeps getting more intense and more intense. And I feel like,
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (28:06)
Mm-hmm.
Right.
Kristin Quattlebaum (28:20)
This is the time we're in, right? And we don't know if it's gonna stop. We don't know if we're at the pinnacle and it's gonna go back or if we're just gonna keep climbing and this is just what we signed up for. So I think to your point about rituals, like it's more important now than ever.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (28:23)
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, to find your center and to find your focus. you can only, I mean there's a lot of chaos out there. We always say like, know, Hello Chaos was, as founders and entrepreneur, you know, we welcome chaos. You know, we try to bring as much calm to the chaos as we can, but we know that we operate a lot of times in complete chaos. But I think it's part of that self-discipline of how do we,
Kristin Quattlebaum (28:53)
Mm-hmm.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (29:07)
you know, of ignore some of that chaos and really bring focus and discipline ourselves to go, okay, I can only control our response. I control how the company responds or what do we need to do. I can't control anything else out there. But we can march forward in our own way. So if you had to sum up your journey in one word, what would it be?
Kristin Quattlebaum (29:28)
100%.
expansive.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (29:41)
I don't know.
Kristin Quattlebaum (29:44)
A lot of death and rebirth.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (29:44)
That's a good word. Kristin, who do you work with most? You mentioned yoga studios, you mentioned you do coaching individuals, but who are your ideal folks that you like to work with, you really kind of help them transform?
Kristin Quattlebaum (30:04)
Hmm. I was asked this question, you know, as entrepreneurs were asked that question a lot. And probably about six months ago, I was asked that question. And right away, what came through was closet visionaries. And it really resonated with me, right? The people who know that they're meant for more, but they're holding themselves back in some way, whether they're in...
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (30:26)
Yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (30:32)
A lot of times it's people who are in corporate and they know like this is not it for them, but they don't know what the path is. Yeah.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (30:34)
Yeah.
I know a lot of those people, that's right. I know a lot of them, mean, because we have a marketing company called Bright, that's what I founded in 2013, but we work with business leaders and CEOs and we hear that, I think I hear that the most of, man, I wish I could do it or I have this idea, but they're either.
You know, there's fear behind that or it's like, man, just take the leap. Like, you've got great vision. But yeah, but we hear that a lot. I think there's a lot of people out there that could channel.
Kristin Quattlebaum (31:11)
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, I was that person in corporate. mean, and I knew there was something else. And I just luckily continue to just follow that.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (31:33)
Do you think it's because people haven't found their purpose yet?
I mean, or they're passionate about something, but they haven't figured out how that purpose is impactful and how to align those.
Kristin Quattlebaum (31:49)
Honestly, I think it's, in some cases people have found that, but they're so tapped into the noise and chaos around them that they can't really hear it clearly. And so the clarity isn't quite there. And they're looking for that clear path. And so that's...
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (31:59)
Hmm.
Yeah, interesting.
Kristin Quattlebaum (32:14)
I think what a lot of our work is, is detaching from all that noise and really coming back to our own energy. Because when we do that, that's when we know exactly what's meant for us. And there's no question.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (32:27)
All right, Chris, so if we met a year from now, what would we be celebrating?
Kristin Quattlebaum (32:37)
Hmm
I mean, what comes through intuitively is that I'm traveling. I'm already traveling, but internationally.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (32:43)
Yeah. Where are we? Where are we celebrating? How is that's a better question, right? Like not what are we celebrating, but where?
Kristin Quattlebaum (32:54)
Yeah, as soon as you asked that I got Bali.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (32:58)
I'll come to Bali, we'll celebrate, manifest, manifest.
Kristin Quattlebaum (32:59)
And I don't.
There's so many places I want to go but that's the one that came through.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (33:08)
Very good. And you've never been?
Kristin Quattlebaum (33:10)
Mm-mm.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (33:12)
What's, is there a place that you have gone that you're like, okay, I would go back in a heartbeat? Or are you still kind of in Nova Scotia is one? A friend of mine that's in the similar space that you're in, she loves to travel and whenever, you know, she has only been to maybe a dozen countries, she wants to hit so many more. But I've asked her, like, where would you go back? And she was like,
Kristin Quattlebaum (33:20)
Nova Scotia, 100%.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (33:42)
you know, not sure I've found that place yet. She goes, I'd love to travel, would I move there and be there all the time? She was like, I don't know if I've found my place yet. So she's still on the hunt.
Kristin Quattlebaum (33:56)
Yeah, I feel like I'm going to have a few properties around the world that I'll continue to travel. But I'll land and have a few places that are my own that I can still travel, but that I have a few. I don't see myself having just one space. Nova Scotia is going to be one of those places now.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (34:07)
Yeah.
one of those spaces may be boiling.
I don't know if this question would even apply to you, but I'm curious of has anything surprised you in your journey about yourself or just the nature of the business? Have you been completely caught off guard?
Kristin Quattlebaum (34:41)
That's an interesting question.
There's a lot of things in my journey that I've discovered that I didn't expect in a million years. Like my intuitive journey has been so incredible and there's been so much that has come through for me from past lives.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (34:56)
Yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (35:09)
that I never in a million years thought that I would be that person that was tapping into, you know, I'm meditating and I'm dropping into a past life in Egypt and seeing myself be sacrificed. these are, and then being able to trace that back to this lifetime and understand exactly what I meant to heal here.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (35:19)
Wow.
Yeah, so those kind of things have surprised you, just the learning.
Kristin Quattlebaum (35:35)
Yeah, like what is, I would say what is revealed itself to me about my past.
It's so funny that you bring this up because last week I was doing a session with a client and we were tuning in together on how do you reconcile what you see intuitively with the 3D here. And one of the things that came through was I saw this vision of like an octopus sort of collecting pieces and bringing it back.
And so what it felt like we're doing all along the way is like collecting parts of us from past lives and even this life, bringing it back to make ourselves whole again. It's more of that remembering, right? And so it is really interesting to like, I'm remembering things that I never would have dreamt of in a million years before or thought that I could connect to.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (36:13)
Right.
Right.
Kristin Quattlebaum (36:33)
but there's so much resonance in it, in truth. And so I feel like on this journey, I'm more me every day. And that's amazing. Yeah.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (36:41)
You're just finding all the pieces. When you talked about intuition, this might be a silly question, so I apologize up front. When you talk about intuition, did you find that you had that intuition all along and it was like those many ahas of like, knew my gut was right? Or you're discovering more of your intuition and how to read into it?
curious.
Kristin Quattlebaum (37:11)
Mm-hmm. So I always tell people that I wasn't consciously intuitive growing up. Looking back now, though, for sure, I had moments. Like, religion was a big one for me. Like, as a child, I rejected the church. And now I understand why. But then I didn't. It's not because I don't believe. It's because I believe that that's
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (37:32)
Okay.
Kristin Quattlebaum (37:39)
an interpretation of the same thing, right? So my belief is that religion is an interpretation of the same thing, right? And so it just, to me, creates separateness. But as a child, I didn't know that. And I rejected it. Like, I tuned out of everything. I went to Sunday school. And I couldn't tell you one Bible story because I tuned it all out.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (37:49)
Right, right.
I don't think you're not the only one. Is there something about you that you really like about yourself or that you have found in your journey that you wish others would recognize more? Yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (38:24)
about me.
so many things. Are you familiar with human design? Is that one test that you've done?
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (38:30)
Mm-hmm.
Is it called human design? I have not taken that test. No, now I'm intrigued.
Kristin Quattlebaum (38:36)
Yeah. It's not a test. It's actually like a birth chart. If you have your birth info, you would pull.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (38:44)
I do know my, I've done my birth chart, yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (38:47)
Yeah, so it's similarly, it combines astrology, the chakra system, ichi and kabbalah, and it spits out a chart and it's a passion project of mine. I like to read charts, but one of the things that is in my chart is I have this channel of judgment, it's called. And what it allows me to do actually is I can walk into chaos and I can tell you where all the issues are.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (38:53)
Okay.
Okay.
Kristin Quattlebaum (39:15)
And so sometimes I think it's perceived as, it's called a projected channel, so it has to be invited in or people won't receive it. And so this is something I've done my whole life. mean, I can open a menu and find a typo. It's just something, it's just innate within me. I think that, so my inclination is to find what's wrong first before I find what's right.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (39:22)
Okay.
Yeah.
Kristin Quattlebaum (39:43)
And it's not necessarily, like we live in a world, right, that's conditioned to positive reinforcement and all of that. And I just like cut to the chase and like, here's what I see is wrong. And so I always tell people that they have to be ready for my work. Because like my work cuts through all the shit and like we face your demons.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (39:55)
Right.
Wow.
Kristin Quattlebaum (40:07)
Like, that's what I do. And so it's translated right into process improvement, from process improvement in corporate and redesigning systems and all the things to finding energetically what's at the root of your noise and how can we clear that.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (40:28)
Right? That's right. In our world, we call it, let's find the friction. Like, what's cross on the rub in your organization that's stopping your growth? And I would liken to what you're doing is, what's the friction inside somebody that's stopping their growth? Okay. Well, is there a piece of advice that you have gotten from other
Kristin Quattlebaum (40:34)
Yeah.
100%.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (40:58)
founders or entrepreneurs that you really took to heart that or is there a piece of advice you'd like to share with our audience to go, look, is, take this to heart.
Kristin Quattlebaum (41:17)
I mean, the biggest thing that honestly comes through, and I don't know if anyone has said this to me, but I mean, BU is what comes through. I don't think that the world needs more robots and people imitating each other, right? We imitate out of fear. We don't need more of that. We need more truth expression and...
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (41:35)
Right.
Kristin Quattlebaum (41:46)
courage and I think that it
It takes that, it takes that to express yourself, but it's magical and it's exactly what you're meant here to do. And nobody, even people in the same industry, nobody can imitate your energy, right? Nobody can magnetize like you can. And that's the biggest thing I would say.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (42:08)
That's right.
Yeah, be unapologetically you, right? I love it. Well, before we go, where can people find you, learn more about what your practice does? It's KQ Unplugged. So how do want people to connect with you?
Kristin Quattlebaum (42:17)
Yes, yes.
Yeah, my website is kqunplugged.co. And then I do hang out on Instagram stories a bit. My Instagram is rewilding KQ. So.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (42:43)
Very good, we'll make sure we'll tag all that. But this has been a great conversation. I hope this was fun for you too, Kristin. It was nice to get to know you. I always get amazed at how fast these things go. For everyone listening or watching, thank you for joining us. This podcast episode will be published on Sundays. So subscribe to Hello Chaos. Give us a like, a comment, a share, or a nice review.
Kristin Quattlebaum (42:52)
It was. Thank you so much.
Jennifer "JJ" Sutton (43:10)
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