We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Quenshala Thomas. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Quenshala below.
Quenshala, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Let’s jump to the end – what do you want to be remembered for?
I hope that my legacy will show my future children & their children etc, to never conform to society’s standards. Whatever they want to achieve is possible & to always heal and nurture their inner child. My legacy will be about an oak tree that blossomed from the concrete & through it all reached the sun, stars & the heavens. My legacy will be how success became of our lineage & generational curses stopped with me when everything was meant to work against us, and how I didn’t flow with the tide but instead created my motion. I will be an honoring inspiration to them. to create something so legendary. From their minds, hands, and spirit. Because my legacy will show them that they are the creators of their universe.
Quenshala, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
I am Quenshala Thomas. Of QueenTrapSoulsKitchen LLC, & HealSoulsPodcast & more. I enjoy doing Readings/ coaching that I also offer on my Tik Tok live (TheRealQueenTrapSouls) & Facebook (Healsoulsreadings) & I have a YouTube channel with my vegan recipes (QueenTrapSoulsKitchen) & (goddess Shala) for all your inner healing needs
Today I will talk to you about how I found myself in what I consider to be the healing industry. After I graduated high school in 2016, I went to technical school & then I found myself in corporate America /working dead-end jobs or in a career where my soul just wasn’t fulfilled. I knew that I wanted to wake up every day and choose what I wanted to do. Create something, make my way & name but just couldn’t find it. Until I was having some minor health issues from the foods I was consuming. Like high blood pressure, swollen ankles, feeling sluggish, and horrible horrible cramps & I knew I had to change. So I embarked on the journey of becoming vegan & I just wanted to make the food look and taste what I was used to because I was in the transitioning phase from meat to just plants but healthier. Once I started to bring my lunches to work & I saw my co-worker’s reactions. I knew I had something special. Next thing you know I was baking cakes, bringing my signature meals to the potlucks, and getting requests for plates on a daily. So, I decided to start documenting the meals I made on social media & people loved it. Part-time on my off days I would create plates & cater to my followers until one day it hit me. Wow! This is my thing. I went back to work that Monday after making my check that I usually make in a week in 48 hours & couldn’t even fathom clocking in. I knew if I didn’t truly believe in myself & create my reality. I would be stuck in the loop of someone else’s dream. I left & never looked back. I took time to truly master my crafts. All self-taught by the way. Every vegan Mac and cheese you see me make? Straight from my imagination! Every spicy fried chickn wing and seafood boil bag is Soy-free, and animal-free. The recipes are in me. Measurements were guided by my ancestors, never a measuring cup. & after I believed in myself I took off! I started by working out of my mom’s kitchen. My support grew & then I was able to move to the west side of Atlanta at first working out of a home I was renting & my support grew even more! Until I was able to buy my car, & my apartment in Buck-head right down the street from my old job !! & my support grew even more. I catapulted into the vendor industry & my name began to be known. The support is so fulfilling, the genuine beautiful souls I continue to meet. The way these people show my business love is all I ever needed. They stayed down and up with me through all the transitions my business has gone through & we’re not even done here. What keeps me going? I never want to go back to the reality that was fed to me from this society as a child. “ forget your dreams, starve your inner child, and become another cookie cutter stamp we want you to be. Go to school, get what they give you, sit down & work until you die, eat this food that will kill you & blame it on the lie that.. it runs in the family”. This is a part of the problem that I solve for my customers. It all starts within, from the foods that you consume to the way that you think, and to the internal healing you must conquer. We’ve been taught years of lies from the system to our parent trauma & I help them unlearn these things so they can truly begin their soul, mind, & body healing. That is the key to this life. Health is true wealth. What sets me apart from others? No matter what I put my love & heart into everything that I do. Because it’s crazy how I & another person could do the same thing in the same way but what you don’t see is the way that I’m connected to everything I create. I have to mediate & be at peace of mind before I ever get in that kitchen & create your food, coach you through healing, and help you through the week because a part of me will always be with a part of you when you connect on the frequency of whatever it is in creating. & people don’t realize that’s with everything we do but the difference is with me. I’m going to forever speak love, light & healing over what you consume from me so you will feel that when you eat my food, you will feel the authenticity when you watch my videos, and you will feel the energy of healing & love.
I am most proud of the fact that I found my way & I hope you know you can too. For anyone out there not happy where you are in life now? Don’t ever allow anyone, a job, this system, this world to tell you who you are. Know you are the creator of your reality. You aren’t stuck, you don’t have to live up to anyone else’s standards. You have all the internal power you need.
How did you build your audience on social media?
So I realized how popular Tik-Tok was getting & saw that as another opportunity to gain more clientele. With any social media, you don’t want to just Jump right out there. Understand the app. How does it work? See what videos are going viral what made you want to continue watching their video? What are you drawn to from their page? & then understand what are you going to put out there? What’s your niche? How can every video make them want to know more? Follow you, ask questions & do you have everything easily available? For example a link to book in bio? Links to your website, YouTube, payment methods? People’s attention spans are very short sometimes on Social media so you have to grab their attention, keep it, send them where they need to go from the link so You can offer the service, get them on the list, etc. don’t just post randomly or copy someone else flow you have to be very authentic on social media, especially Tik Tok & youtube. You can’t fake the funk in a video or live & the people meant for you will be drawn to you. It takes time. The only thing that matters is quality, consistency, and your why?
What’s worked well for you in terms of a source for new clients?
Social Media has been the best source of new clients for me. Get a social media manager you don’t have to figure out how to do this alone or at all for that matter. But in the long run, you should use all the tools available to you to market your brand and reach new customers. Don’t get overwhelmed or stuck in the times & don’t be afraid to conquer social media. You got this!
But all in all word of mouth is everything & I appreciate every single customer, potential client, regular, and people watching and waiting to reach out to me about the services & products I offer. Thank you! & remember if you’re able to support a black-owned or small business?do it today & a Repost can help us out
Contact Info:
- Website: https://linktr.ee/GoddessShala
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/queentrapsoulskitchen/
- Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/healsoulsreadings-106534165437318/
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCmSsgebEaBgQ0Uhyis2fOZQ
- Other: Podcast : https://open.spotify.com/episode/6GeaYgO2czb2aCnEr3dTII?si=IGzvrj79Tg6f-zWUhJCaEQ