Life, Values & Legacy: Our Chat with Elise Krentzel

We’re looking forward to introducing you to Elise Krentzel. Check out our conversation below.

Good morning Elise, we’re so happy to have you here with us and we’d love to explore your story and how you think about life and legacy and so much more. So let’s start with a question we often ask: What’s more important to you—intelligence, energy, or integrity?
First off how is intelligence defined?

Intelligence to me is wrapped in the heart center with empathy, compassion, and joy. So intelligence is cognitive awareness based on integrity.

Energy cannot be separated into a category of importance; that’s like asking is breathings air more important than eating? Energy is what the universe is made of and so are we.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I’m a rogue in every sense of the word. Eccentric to a degree and unquenchably curious about the world and its magnificent various cultures,

That’s why my chosen profession is an innate gift; as an author, journalist, ghostwriter and chronicler of life-real life stories, narrative non-fiction is a perfect fit for me.

Travel, and the art of archeology (as applied to the extraction of beauty) within people bring wholeness to my life.

Thanks for sharing that. Would love to go back in time and hear about how your past might have impacted who you are today. Who were you before the world told you who you had to be?
Who I was is someone that I had longed to become and who I am right now!

Coming full circle, as a child I was highly observant and extremely aware of my environment, and people’s reactions both invisible and visible. Attuned to everything around me, which enabled me to have a laser-like vision and heightened senses. I knew when a person lied or hid their true motivations behind money, power, or intellect.

I was told not to be so acutely aware that I would lose friends or people who wouldn’t like me, and that was true, but I was made to feel shame or embarrassed about my skills and my gifts which are precious.

When did you stop hiding your pain and start using it as power?
Many people use the analogy that life is like an onion, and you must peel back the layers of your emotional experience and memories in order to get to the core of your being. Behavioral scientists and therapists or neuroscientist says they like to be called these days, speak about rewiring Your brain to become neuroplastic.

That’s all good and well, however in order to do that what I found was that you had to go into the pain relive it perhaps analyze where it came from but mostly feeling it until you felt it so deeply that you could release it.

Once I the pain was released, which was not one time rather, it was over a period of decades, I was able to transform that which held me back and caused actual physical pain in places. Then I was ready to take my place in the pantheon of scribes.

I devoted myself full-time to writing books, authoring my own and ghostwriting others’. The transformation of pain was converted to memoir.

I shall never look back again.

I think our readers would appreciate hearing more about your values and what you think matters in life and career, etc. So our next question is along those lines. What would your closest friends say really matters to you?
Truth.

They’d say I’m a truth seeker searching for what makes each person inherently human: their heart center.

Not their emotions because those come and go and swing wildly like the pendulum at MacArthur’s observatory.

Before we go, we’d love to hear your thoughts on some longer-run, legacy type questions. What do you understand deeply that most people don’t?
That life is eternal.

People have swallowed meta-narratives for millennia out of fear or suppression. Those scripts offered by religious leaders, nations, states, educational facilities and parents have agendas.

Strip the agenda and you’ll find we are constitutionally made up of stardust. We are the stuff of the universe and that’s energy which never dies. Nor do we. We slide out of this uniform: flesh and bones, into another dimension when the body dies. That’s all that dies. We live eternally as souls.

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