Methodology: Gut Intelligence® (GQ)

Our programs are designed to elevate your level of consciousness, enabling you to SHIFT and make decisions that are aligned with your vision, values, and goals. We achieve this by increasing your Gut Intelligence® (GQ), a proven trademarked process since 2016.

Susan trademarked the term and process of Gut Intelligence® (GQ) after observing how often leaders unconsciously created crisis situations by ignoring early cues that are out of alignment with their vision, values, and goals. In these unprecedented times, where change is the only constant, having high GQ is just as crucial as having high IQ and EQ—to avoid costly mistakes.

Increased GQ helps you respond to challenges with a clear, calm, and confident mindset, instead of reacting with fight, flight, or freeze responses driven by fear, self-doubt, and judgment.

Our techniques for increasing your Gut Intelligence® (GQ) help you recognize how your gut, heart, head, and intuition function as interconnected information centers, guiding you like a Board of Directors within, to keep you aligned with your vision, values, and goals.

Rather than reacting, you'll learn to bypass the reactive center of your brain, becoming strategically minded and aligned with your intuitive voice. This leads to "a-ha" moments—a heightened awareness that literally gives you chills as your gut, heart, head, and intuition all say, “YES!”

What is Gut Intelligence® (GQ) and how do you increase it?

The gut acts as an initial information system to alert us to S.T.O.P. and pay attention to something that requires our decision. When we learn how to bring the neurons, neurotransmitters, and hormones up the vagus nerve we make what was unconscious now conscious.

Increased Gut Intelligence® (GQ) is the ability to synthesize the wisdom from the gut, heart, head, and intuition - each of which acts as an information center in decision-making:

1. The Gut: The Internal Compass

• The Signal: The Gut-Alert. This is a wake-up call to pay attention and make the unconscious neurons, neurotransmitters, and hormones in the gut conscious by sending them up the vagus nerve to be processed in the head-brain.

2. The Heart: Emotional Data

• The Signal: The Heart’s Desire. This is the information system that reveals your emotions and helps you determine your direction.

3. The Head: Cognitive Awareness

• The Signal: The Field of Possibilities. This is where we become aware of the various strategies available.

4. Intuitive Knowing: That “A-ha” Knowing

• The Signal: “A-ha” Knowing: A visceral response in the body that tells you your gut, heart, head, and intuition are all in agreement and you've found your just right solution. This happens when we step into curiosity and surrender. It is the "P" in the S.T.O.P. Technique—"Perceive & Receive." When we ask our intuition a curious this question, "How might we find a solution that keeps us in alignment with our vision, values, and goals?" - we attune to that "A-ha" knowing.

The SHIFT Effect that increases Gut Intelligence® (GQ):

S – Sense misalignment clearly – Learn to trust the gut-alert that signals when something is out of alignment with your vision, values, and goals.
H – Harness your intuition – Breathe into your gut and integrate wisdom from your gut, heart, head, and intuition for deeper guidance.
I – Integrate your insights – Use our Gut Intelligence® (GQ) Blueprint process to synthesize information and make confident decisions like an inner Board of Directors.
F – Focus on creation, not reaction – Stay present, respond with purpose, and align every action to your vision, values, and goals.
T – Take inspired action – Move forward with the speed and agility of a cheetah, inspired and aligned with the outcomes you want to create.

Susan’s Gut Intelligence® (GQ) methodology is grounded in neuroscience, teaching you how to move out of the reactionary center of your brain and into the higher lobes where intuition, enlightenment, and innovation reside. By activating the gut-brain axis, you’ll guide unconscious neurotransmitters, neurons, and hormones up the vagus nerve to be processed from a higher state of consciousness.

Our Gut Intelligence® (GQ) methodology is designed to help you SHIFT your level of consciousness and elevate your leadership, ensuring you make the most effective decisions that align with your vision, values, and goals—both at work and at home.

"How might we...?"

Here's just one tip on how you can increase your Gut Intelligence (GQ):

Curiosity leads to greater Gut Intelligence (GQ), and is a technique to get you out of the reaction center of your brain. When you learn how to observe what is happening in a neutral point of view, you say to yourself, "Hmmm...isn't that interesting. I wonder what that is about for them?" This allows you to step back from your own ego and observe the situation from a fearlessly detached point of view. Then, when you say to yourself, and those you are working with, "How might we deal with "x" so we can create "y"?" you become the leader who responds effectively to situations, keeping everyone on track with the vision, values, and goals.

This is just one technique within our Gut Intelligence Blueprint to help you achieve increased Gut Intelligence (GQ). Learning breathing techniques is another technique that will slow down your chattering mind, so you can listen to your intuitive voice within. The goal is to learn how to observe the ego and become self-aware of how your fear, self-doubt, and judgment are getting in the way of you creating the life you want, at work and home.

With increased Gut Intelligence (GQ), and greater intuitive alignment, you will learn how to trust yourself to make decisions that are in alignment with your vision, values, and goals!