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  • From The Archives: The Art of Surrender with Jake Putan

    From The Archives: The Art of Surrender with Jake Putan
    2026/09/18
    Episode Description

    This episode is coming over 2 years after it was actually recorded.

    I share on the podcast my own process with this and the reclamation that lays here in the ownership of one's own creation.

    This episode was recorded with a brother of mine, Jake Putan. A brother who I crossed paths with a number of time and who's story inspired me.

    In this episode we dive into everything, from food, to money, to health and of course spirituality.

    It is weird (pun attended) to try and write a description for this one as it covers so much ground and there is too many pieces of gold to count.

    Yet, one thing I do know, is you will enjoy this podcast and receive some wisdom from Mr Jake Putan, The Barber Priest.

    Connect with Jake:

    Instagram: @thebarberpriest

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    Core themes
    • Surrender vs control: learning when to act, when to wait, and when to let life move.
    • Intuition & the body: distinguishing deeper knowing from the noise of the mind.
    • The barber as ritual space: how an ordinary haircut can become a doorway into presence, connection and transformation.
    • Food as relationship: exploring consumption, craving, nourishment and the ways we use food to avoid feeling.
    • Masculine structure & feminine flow: building strong enough banks to allow life to move without becoming a dam.
    • Money as currency: releasing attachment to accumulation and exploring money as something that moves through life.
    • Radical experiences vs sustainable transformation: why profound transformation doesn't always require blowing the doors off your life.
    • Leaving the village: knowing when separation is necessary to discover yourself, and when it's time to return.
    • Faith in the unknown: stepping beyond certainty without abandoning groundedness.
    • Simplicity as medicine: small, repeatable shifts rather than constantly chasing the next peak experience.

    TIMESTAMPS

    00:00 Why this episode is returning from the archives 04:20 The Barber Priest 06:45 The haircut as a container for transformation 12:21 Why peak experiences aren't always enough 18:38 Food, fasting and intuition 22:39 Are we using food to nourish or avoid? 30:39 Food, relationships and trauma patterns 34:16 From fighting the war to building the temple 43:08 Sustainable transformation 45:13 When you need to leave the village 50:02 Do they need to leave, or do they need support? 54:47 Trusting the timing of life 57:42 The call to pack everything up 01:00:33 When the money runs out 01:01:52 The temple and the unexpected miracle 01:12:12 The last $30 01:14:35 Beyond money: reciprocal exchange 01:15:03 The $170,000 offer 01:16:42 “I don't need it” 01:18:19 Money as a river 01:21:41 Building the banks 01:25:07 Masculinity, wealth and capacity 01:26:01 Don't turn the riverbanks into dams 01:30:29 Structure creates flow 01:33:08 Structure + flow 01:35:29 The simplicity of transformation 01:37:47 Connecting with Jake 01:39:22 Let it be simple

    Links:

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    About Dean:

    Dean Bentley is a speaker, mentor and host of The Wyrd Way podcast. Often called a Viking Priest, he guides deep transformational work through initiation, men’s work and embodied practice. His work helps people face what is real, reclaim fragmented parts of themselves, and live with grounded purpose, truth and creative power.
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  • The Healing Power of Judgement w/Dean Bentley

    The Healing Power of Judgement w/Dean Bentley
    2026/09/11
    Episode Description What if judgement isn't something you need to get rid of? For many of us, self-judgement, criticism and perfectionism aren't simply negative habits. They're protective patterns, formed around an old need for belonging, acceptance and safety. In this episode of The Wyrd Way, Dean Bentley explores the deeper purpose of judgement and what can happen when we stop trying to silence the inner critic and instead become curious about it. What is the judgement trying to protect? What are you afraid might happen if you get it wrong? And what lives underneath the belief that you're not good enough? Dean explores the relationship between judgement, shame, perfectionism, conditioning and the different parts of the psyche that shape how we experience ourselves. Rather than banishing these parts, he explores what it means to witness them, breathe into the discomfort, understand their purpose and bring them back into relationship with the whole. The conversation also moves into embodiment and expression, including why judgement can freeze our ability to dance, create, express and explore who we really are. Ultimately, this isn't a conversation about becoming someone who never judges. It's about transforming judgement into awareness, discernment and deeper self-understanding. And perhaps the most powerful shift is learning that you don't have to keep running from where you are. You can meet yourself there. You can accept what is here. And from that ground, you can begin to move steadily towards the life you actually want to create. The Wyrd Way is a podcast exploring alchemy, initiation, becoming and the deeper terrain of human transformation. Find your way. 🜃 Core Themes Judgement as protection Self-judgement often develops as an attempt to maintain belonging, safety and acceptance.The difference between judgement and discernment The goal isn't to eliminate judgement, but to bring it into a more conscious and useful relationship with the self.“The judgement isn't me, it's an aspect of me.” Creating distance from the judging voice allows you to witness it rather than become identified with it.What is underneath the judgement? Beneath “I'm doing something wrong” can be deeper fears of rejection, inadequacy, abandonment or not being good enough.Bringing rejected parts back into the whole Healing isn't about banishing the judge. It's about understanding the part, feeling what sits beneath it, and bringing it back into relationship with the whole self.Breaking perfectionism and conditioning Many of the rules governing how we believe we should behave are inherited stories designed for an earlier version of ourselves.Judgement can freeze expression Dance becomes a particularly powerful example of how cultural conditioning and fear of judgement can disconnect people from their bodies and creative expression.Moving towards, rather than running away from Sustainable change comes less from self-flagellation and escaping what we don't like, and more from moving towards what we genuinely want to create.Self-acceptance as the foundation for change Acceptance isn't resignation. It creates the stable ground from which genuine change can happen.From dramatic transformation to steady becoming The final movement of the episode is beautifully aligned with the Wyrd Way: less obsession with huge highs and lows, more grounded, gradual movement towards the life you want. Timestamps 00:00 Welcome to The Wyrd Way 00:59 Why we judge ourselves 02:08 Where self-judgement comes from 02:51 Judgement as a survival mechanism 04:21 Why we shouldn't try to eliminate judgement 04:39 Judgement and discernment 05:02 When judgement becomes toxic 06:21 Getting to know the one who judges 06:41 The grief of rejecting parts of ourselves 07:40 Healing by bringing judgement closer 08:18 “The judgement isn't me, it's an aspect of me” 08:42 From identification to curiosity 09:12 What is the judgement protecting? 09:35 Meeting the fear of not being good enough 09:57 Creating capacity to feel 10:23 Releasing rigidity and emotional charge 11:01 Going beneath the first layer of awareness 11:20 Understanding the deeper undercurrents 12:02 Compassion instead of judging the judge 13:05 A practical approach to working with judgement 13:32 Why this is a gradual process 13:49 Sub-personalities, archetypes and the psyche 14:59 Deconditioning and accessing the whole self 15:11 What freedom actually means 15:57 Judgement, men and the freedom to dance 16:40 When judgement freezes the nervous system 17:15 Coming back into the body 18:30 Questioning who you think you have to be 20:03 When identity becomes a confinement 20:29 Practices for moving beyond judgement 21:07 Moving away from pain vs moving towards desire 22:17 Why judgement is an unsustainable fuel 22:42 “I'm not good enough, so I have to prove myself” 23:06 The collapse that forces us to stop running 23:22 Self-acceptance as solid ground 24:08 Slow growth and the path of ...
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  • From The Archives: Grief Is The Portal w/ Odelle Wolfenden

    From The Archives: Grief Is The Portal w/ Odelle Wolfenden
    2026/09/04
    Episode Description: Some conversations arrive before we're ready for them. This one was recorded back in Season 2 with my dear sister, Odelle Wolfenden, and somehow it feels like it has found its way back to us at exactly the right moment. Odelle is someone who has walked alongside me through different chapters of my own path. We first met during a vision quest, and since then our lives have continued to weave in and out of one another. There is something powerful about the people who don't need to remain constantly present to remain deeply connected. In this conversation, we explore what it means to trust the mysterious timing of our relationships, to let people come and go without needing to hold on, and to recognise that some connections arrive for a reason and a season. From there, the conversation opens into grief. Grief as heartbreak. Grief as longing. Grief as surrender. Grief as initiation. And perhaps most importantly, grief as a portal. A portal back into presence. Back into love. Back into ourselves. We speak about the medicine of stillness, the power of solitude, vision quest, death and rebirth, the identities we must allow to fall away, and what happens when we stop trying to insert ourselves into life and begin truly listening. Odelle also shares her relationship with voice, song, embodiment and the deeper calling to live as fully and authentically as we can. This is less an interview and more a meeting around the fire. Two people listening. Two paths weaving. One conversation unfolding in its own strange and beautiful way. Welcome to the archives of The Wyrd Way. Core Themes: Grief as a Portal How grief can become a pathway to healing, presence and transformation.Learning to Let Go Releasing people, identities and chapters without losing yourself.Trusting the Unknown Surrendering control and listening for what life is asking of you.The Medicine of Stillness What solitude, silence and deep listening reveal beneath the noise.Death, Rebirth & Becoming Allowing old versions of ourselves to die so something truer can emerge.Coming Home to Yourself Embodiment, authenticity and finding your way back to what matters. Timestamps: 00:00 – Welcome to the Archives Why Dean is returning to conversations from Season 2 and why this particular conversation still carries medicine. 03:04 – The Meeting That Was Meant to Happen Dean introduces Odelle and reflects on first meeting her during a vision quest. 05:18 – Soul Allies & the People Who Return The strange weaving of relationships, friendship, transformation and the people who continue to find their way back into our lives. 08:11 – Why Some People Leave the Container Learning to trust that connection doesn't necessarily require constant proximity. 09:00 – Reason, Season & Deep Trust Why we meet certain people, why now, and what happens when we stop trying to control the unfolding. 11:19 – The Medicine of Stillness Vision quest, solitude and learning to listen beneath the noise. 12:47 – Where Am I Meant to Be? Trusting the present moment and listening to the deeper movement of the soul. 14:03 – Grief Is the Portal Grief, heartbreak and the possibility that sorrow can open us into greater love. 15:01 – The Power of Listening What happens when we stop trying to be the person who delivers the message and allow the conversation itself to speak. 15:44 – Grief, Initiation & Coming Home How grief can release us from attachment to the past and future and return us to the present. 16:23 – The Grief of Giving Everything Failure, heartbreak, powerlessness and the terror of opening your heart again. 20:00 – Redefining Success Moving beyond comparison and competition and allowing success to mean living your truest soul path. 01:00:24 – Listening to the Subtlety Following the quiet signals of life and discovering that beauty, peace and love are already present. 01:03:44 – Who Is Odelle? Odelle shares more about her identity, her path and the work she is here to do. 01:05:02 – Song, Medicine & Rebirth Odelle explores the meaning behind her name, medicine songs, the dragon queen archetype and her devotion to rebirth. 01:08:32 – The Transmission A spontaneous vocal transmission and a reminder that some experiences can only really be received in person. 01:10:59 – Singing Yourself Into Being Voice, dance, sacred union and embodying the fullest expression of yourself. 01:13:12 – Coming Home to More of You Odelle's invitation to embody more truth, ecstasy, heart and authenticity. 01:14:15 – Rebirthing the Golden Earth Odelle shares her larger vision for collective awakening and service. 01:15:01 – Closing the Circle A beautiful closing between two old allies. About Dean: Dean Bentley is a speaker, mentor and host of The Wyrd Way podcast. Often called a Viking Priest, he guides deep transformational work through initiation, men’s work and embodied practice. His work helps people face what is real, reclaim fragmented parts of ...
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  • The Messy Art Of Humaning

    The Messy Art Of Humaning
    2026/08/28
    Episode Description: The Messy Art of Humaning What if you don't need to have yourself figured out? We live in a world obsessed with optimisation, growth and becoming better versions of ourselves. We're constantly encouraged to heal, improve, evolve and move forward. But somewhere along the way, it's easy to start believing that the messy parts of us are evidence that we're failing. The repeating patterns. The emotional reactions. The shame. The parts of ourselves we wish were different. But what if the mess isn't something to get rid of? In this episode of The Wyrd Way, Dean explores the messy reality of being human and what happens when we stop trying to criticise ourselves into becoming better. Instead, we're invited to meet the parts of ourselves we judge with curiosity, compassion and grace. Not to excuse unhealthy behaviour or avoid growth, but to understand what is actually happening beneath the surface. Because we can't always move faster than we're ready to move. And no amount of knowledge can allow us to bypass the places we're still learning to embody. Maybe the work isn't becoming a perfectly healed, clean or resolved human. Maybe it's learning to love the whole strange, complicated, unfinished thing. The mess included. Core Themes: The pressure to have yourself figured out How self-improvement, social comparison and cultural expectations can leave us feeling like we should be further along.Making space for our mess The ugly, frustrating, repetitive and uncomfortable parts of ourselves that we often try to hide, fix or transcend.Shame, judgement and self-compassion Moving away from criticising ourselves into becoming "better" and instead learning to meet ourselves with curiosity, grace and compassion.The parts of ourselves we disown Exploring how suppressed emotions, behaviours and identities can continue to surface until we're willing to actually meet them.The gap between knowing and embodying Having all the books, tools and frameworks doesn't mean our body knows how to respond differently when we're actually in the moment.The inherited patterns we carry How family, culture and generations of conditioning shape the ways we suppress ourselves and understand who we're supposed to be.The mess as part of the path Perhaps becoming isn't about cleaning ourselves up, but learning how to know, hold and integrate the whole of who we are.Learning to be human In a world moving faster than our nervous systems can comfortably process, remembering how to connect, feel, love and simply be human. Timestamps 00:00 | Welcome to The Messy Art of Humaning Why this conversation feels important in a world obsessed with growth, optimisation and self-improvement. 02:12 | What about our mess? The ugly, frustrating and repetitive parts of ourselves we don't often talk about. 03:18 | The pressure to have it all figured out Cultural conditioning, age expectations and comparing our lives to everyone else's highlights. 04:19 | Shame dies when stories are told Creating space to talk about the parts of ourselves we're ashamed of instead of hiding them. 05:19 | What is actually true? Looking beyond external expectations and asking what we genuinely need. 05:27 | Compassion as a pathway to healing Meeting the parts of ourselves we judge, rather than pushing them away. 06:04 | When the tools don't work The reality of having all the knowledge but still finding yourself reacting from old patterns. 06:48 | You can't move faster than you can move Why understanding something intellectually doesn't mean we've embodied it yet. 07:10 | Learning to love the mess Compassion doesn't mean excusing behaviour. It means becoming curious about what's happening underneath it. 08:19 | What we disown comes back Why suppressed parts of ourselves keep asking to be seen. 08:32 | The patterns we inherit Cultural conditioning, gender expectations and the patterns that can move through generations. 10:26 | Changing the trajectory of your lineage The perspective that comes from recognising the work we're doing isn't only for ourselves. 10:50 | We're living in an unprecedented amount of information The modern world, overwhelm and the sheer amount our human systems are trying to process. 11:22 | We need compassion, not more criticism Learning and developing without using shame as the engine. 12:33 | Get to know your mess Why knowing yourself means becoming familiar with the unconscious parts you would rather not look at. 12:49 | The strange obsession with being "clean" Exploring our relationship with cleanliness, dirt, nature and the parts of ourselves we've labelled as unacceptable. 13:34 | Bringing the mess back in What happens when we stop trying to maintain an identity of being "clean" and allow more of ourselves to belong. 14:36 | Learning how to be human again Connection, feeling, openness and navigating an increasingly fast world. 15:24 | Witnessing yourself without getting stuck Learning to observe your mess without allowing it to ...
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  • Holding The Tension of Opposites

    Holding The Tension of Opposites
    2026/08/21
    Core premise What if being “aligned” doesn't mean that everything is working? What if the uncomfortable parts of your life aren't evidence that you've lost your way, but invitations to become more capable of meeting reality as it actually is? This episode explores the tension between vision and reality, desire and grief, trust and doubt, creation and surrender, life and death. It challenges the spiritual tendency to reject whatever doesn't fit our idealised version of ourselves and instead asks what becomes possible when we allow the fullness of the human experience to exist. The episode draws heavily on the alchemical idea of the union of opposites, exploring how holding rather than resolving these tensions can create greater openness, life force, creativity and wholeness. Episode description What if you're not supposed to choose? We live in a world that constantly asks us to pick a side. Success or failure. Pleasure or pain. Trust or doubt. Spirituality or humanity. The person we are or the person we believe we should become. But life rarely works that cleanly. In this episode of The Wyrd Way, Dean explores what it means to hold the tension of opposites rather than rushing to resolve, reject or escape it. We explore the spiritual trap of believing that alignment means getting everything you want, and how this can create a painful gap between who you actually are and who you think you should be. Dean dives into the alchemical concept of the sacred marriage, the union of opposites, and why our capacity to hold contradiction may be one of the foundations of genuine transformation. We explore: Why resistance to your current reality can prevent the very change you're seekingThe difference between having a vision and rejecting what isHow spiritual bypassing can become another form of controlWhy doubt and questioning aren't necessarily signs that you're on the wrong pathThe relationship between commitment, trust and faithWhat happens when we stop trying to maintain a rigid identityWhy love inevitably contains the possibility of griefThe role of death in creating a new lifeHow the parts of ourselves we reject continue to consume our life forceWhat it means to meet the wounded, grieving or fearful parts of yourselfWhy the fullness of being human requires making room for both sides of the experience The invitation isn't to become perfectly aligned. It's to become capable of meeting life. Because perhaps the path isn't found by eliminating contradiction. Perhaps it is found in learning to stand in the middle of it. Chapters 00:00 — Welcome to The Wyrd Way What does it actually mean to hold the tension of life? 01:14 — The trap of “alignment” Why believing that alignment means success can create another form of spiritual perfectionism. 02:43 — The gap between who you are and who you think you should be How dissonance creates space for shadow and unintegrated parts of ourselves. 03:57 — The sacred marriage The alchemical union of opposites and the integration of the human experience. 04:24 — When reality doesn't match the vision Finances, relationships, creation and the temptation to force life into our preferred shape. 05:17 — Acceptance as the beginning of change Why we cannot transform what we refuse to enter into relationship with. 06:43 — Spiritual bypassing and the current reality Vision matters, but so does the reality standing directly in front of you. 07:27 — When the soul contradicts the ego What happens when the path we're being asked to walk doesn't match the identity we've constructed. 08:11 — The Tower Cracks in the foundation, descent, grounding and the necessity of meeting what is. 09:02 — Expanding the sense of self How holding opposing truths creates greater fluidity and releases energy for creation. 09:53 — Trust, faith and the entrepreneurial path The tension between where you are and where you're trying to go. 10:27 — Are we going the right way? Why questioning can be useful, but constant hesitation can weaken our ability to move. 12:33 — Why do you hesitate? Meeting the fear beneath indecision, judgment and the unknown. 13:02 — The death required for transformation Allowing what needs to die without assuming everything must disappear. 14:03 — Commitment and devotion What becomes possible when we stop holding ourselves back and move with our whole being. 17:40 — Love and grief Why opening to one side of life inevitably opens us to its opposite. 18:23 — Opening to the emotions we've rejected Allowing grief, pain and the parts of ourselves that haven't had permission to be felt. 19:18 — Meeting the parts of yourself that don't want to be here The victim, the wounded child, the grieving self. 20:01 — The alchemical process Why transformation takes time, devotion and repeated encounters with unconscious material. 28:29 — The invitation: Meet life How can you enter this precious moment rather than waiting for another one? 30:33 — Closing ...
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  • The Illusion of Control: The Wisdom of the Fool

    The Illusion of Control: The Wisdom of the Fool
    2026/07/03
    Episode Description

    What if your need to understand everything is the very thing keeping you from truly living?

    In this episode, Dean explores the illusion of control through the archetypes of the Shadow Magician and the Fool. Together, they reveal how fear disguises itself as knowledge, why certainty can become a prison, and how the courage to enter the unknown opens the doorway to a richer, more authentic life.

    From manifestation and spirituality to inner child healing, devotion, and the wisdom hidden within uncertainty, this conversation is an invitation to step beyond the walls you've built to feel safe and rediscover what it means to truly meet life.

    Core Themes
    • The illusion of control
    • The Shadow Magician archetype
    • The wisdom of the Fool
    • Fear disguised as knowledge
    • Presence over prediction
    • Manifestation and attachment to outcomes
    • Moving beyond entitlement and victimhood
    • Trusting intuition instead of outsourcing wisdom
    • Meeting the inner child with compassion
    • Learning as a spiritual practice
    • Living beyond certainty
    • Entering life rather than observing it
    • Devotion over perfection
    • Faith and surrender
    • The alchemical path of becoming
    Chapters

    00:00 Introduction

    01:00 Wisdom, fear and the need for control

    03:20 The Shadow Magician

    05:00 Manifestation, entitlement and attachment

    08:00 Outsourcing your own wisdom

    10:20 Why life refuses to be controlled

    12:15 The Fool's journey into the unknown

    15:00 Knowledge versus lived experience

    17:30 Learning as initiation

    20:00 Meeting the unconscious

    21:30 Listening to the wounded inner child

    24:15 Every voice deserves to be heard

    26:00 Creating safety from within

    28:00 Leaving the tower and entering life

    Links:

    RAW: Men's Primal Embodiment Retreat

    Book a Discovery Call

    About Dean:

    Dean Bentley is a speaker, mentor and host of The Wyrd Way podcast. Often called a Viking Priest, he guides deep transformational work through initiation, men’s work and embodied practice. His work helps people face what is real, reclaim fragmented parts of themselves, and live with grounded purpose, truth and creative power.
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  • Following The Thread: From Garage Circles to Main Stages

    Following The Thread: From Garage Circles to Main Stages
    2026/06/26
    Description:

    A few weeks ago I found myself standing on the main stage at the Mind Body Spirit Festival in Melbourne.

    If you had told me six years ago that I would be doing that, I probably would have laughed. More than likely, I would have found a reason why it wasn't possible.

    At the time, I was running a small men's circle from a garage while studying engineering at university. I didn't have a plan. I didn't know where it was leading. I wasn't trying to become a speaker.

    Truthfully, I wasn't trying to become much of anything.

    I was simply following something.

    Looking back now, that has been the common thread through much of my life. Not a strategy. Not a five-year plan. Not certainty.

    A thread.

    A feeling that there was something here worth moving towards, even when I couldn't explain why.

    This episode began because so many people in Melbourne asked me the same question:

    "How did you get here?"

    And the more I sat with that question, the more I realised there wasn't a simple answer.

    There were men's circles. There were mentors. There were retreats. There were failed attempts, uncomfortable conversations, shaky Instagram lives, moments of deep self-doubt, and more times than I can count where I questioned whether I had anything worth sharing at all.

    There were also moments where life seemed to open a door and ask me to take a step.

    Not ten steps.

    Just one.

    This conversation is a reflection on that journey. Not because I believe I have it figured out, but because I know there are people listening who are standing at the edge of something themselves.

    Something calling them forward.

    Something asking to be lived.

    My experience has been that we rarely get the whole map. We are given a thread, a direction, a next step. And if we are willing to trust it, life has a way of revealing what comes after.

    This episode is about following that thread.

    Time Stamps:

    00:00 Welcome to The Wyrd Way

    01:00 Returning to the podcast after a break

    01:37 Speaking at Mind Body Spirit Festival Melbourne

    02:00 The RAW Men's Retreat and creating transformational spaces

    03:27 Why people kept asking: "How did you get here?"

    04:03 From fearing the stage to loving it

    05:00 Growth through following aliveness and discomfort

    06:54 Reflecting on six years of mentoring and transformation

    07:24 The first men's circle in a university garage

    09:00 Beginning before knowing what you're doing

    09:40 Engineering, anxiety, depression, and the search for healing

    10:18 Breathwork, meditation, plant medicine, and self-discovery

    12:22 Becoming a coach and facing imposter syndrome

    13:24 Starting imperfectly and learning in public

    15:17 The terrifying first Instagram Live

    16:04 Learning to love the parts of yourself that feel afraid

    16:55 Becoming versus performing

    17:33 Ego, collapse, and coming back into alignment

    19:14 Authenticity and owning what you're feeling

    20:20 Looking for the next step instead of the whole path

    21:25 Stewarding a vision without controlling it

    22:01 Treating your creations as living entities

    23:01 Business, relationships, and being in conversation with life

    24:42 The danger of trying to think your way through everything

    25:30 Being in conversation with the universe

    26:11 Following intuition, mentors, and unexpected opportunities

    27:27 Vision quests, relationships, and life's turning points

    28:20 Following the thread of your own becoming

    29:02 Leadership as going first

    30:15 Six years later: arriving on the main stage

    31:04 The role fear has played in every stage of growth

    31:41 Greatness, service, and sharing your gifts

    32:24 Mentorship, RAW Retreat, and next opportunities

    34:01 Closing reflections

    Links:

    RAW: Men's Primal Embodiment Retreat

    Book a Discovery Call

    About Dean:

    Dean Bentley is a speaker, mentor and host of The Wyrd Way podcast. Often called a Viking Priest, he guides deep transformational work through initiation, men’s work and embodied practice. His work helps people face what is real, reclaim fragmented parts of themselves, and live with grounded purpose, truth and creative power.
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  • Unlocking The Depth of Your Soul: The Transformative Powers of Presence, Expression & Surrender

    Unlocking The Depth of Your Soul: The Transformative Powers of Presence, Expression & Surrender
    2026/05/15
    Welcome Back Wyrd Wayer's

    Ok, so y'all getting a bit more this week because I've been a bit bored by AI's write up of these episodes (don't worry I'll still include it so you know what this week was all about), and wanted to create a bit more intimacy and realness.

    This week was fresh. As always I started with a bit of a ramble before really finding the thread of where we were at this week.

    This episode landed a lot of clarity for myself on some of the core themes of my own work and highlights the areas that I continue to return to, expression, alchemy, and embodiment. It's all about that feeling yo, and expressing it into this world.

    My ole adage of "how can I be more in this world?" rings true on this episode and if you want to know how to deepen into your world, life and connection to yourself, this is a good episode for you.

    So enjoy, share and let me know what lands for you

    Summary (AI):

    In this deeply personal transmission, Dean Bentley explores the healing power of slowing down in a world addicted to force, hustle, and constant self-improvement.

    Fresh from hosting his Edge workshop and navigating his own exhaustion, Dean speaks candidly about guilt, rest, nervous system overwhelm, emotional contraction, and the unconscious conditioning that tells us we must always be “on” to be worthy of love.

    This episode is an invitation to soften.

    To breathe.

    To stop trying to force your healing and instead create safety within yourself so the body, heart, and soul can finally open.

    Dean dives into:

    • The shame many people feel around rest and doing nothing
    • Why healing cannot be rushed
    • Nervous system contraction and emotional safety
    • The difference between force and attunement
    • The savior dynamic in relationships
    • Expression as alchemy
    • Learning to embody authenticity
    • The beauty of surrender and self-acceptance
    • Why your greatest task may simply be allowing yourself to be fully seen

    This is a transmission about coming home to yourself.

    About releasing the pressure to become someone else.

    About realizing that perhaps the deepest healing isn’t becoming more — but finally allowing yourself to be.

    Raw, honest, spacious, and deeply human.

    Welcome back to The Wyrd Way.

    Timestamps
    • 00:00 — Opening Invocation: The Wyrd Way
    • 01:18 — Coming Down After Holding Space
    • 02:16 — The Shame Around Rest
    • 03:23 — Childhood Conditioning & The Need to Perform
    • 04:49 — The Nervous System & Constant Stimulation
    • 05:52 — Healing Beyond Force
    • 07:01 — Why We Need Space to Breathe
    • 08:42 — The Tension We Don’t Realize We Carry
    • 10:02 — Attunement vs Force in Life & Relationships
    • 12:39 — Savior Dynamics & Emotional Responsibility
    • 15:00 — Awareness, Capacity & Self-Check-Ins
    • 16:24 — Why Support Matters in Healing
    • 17:45 — Healing Takes Time
    • 20:30 — Patience on the Spiritual Path
    • 21:25 — The Beauty of Being Alive
    • 23:46 — The Grass is Greener Where You Water It
    • 24:44 — Creating From Love Instead of Resentment
    • 26:02 — Character Work & Emotional Expression
    • 28:35 — We Came Here to Feel
    • 29:38 — Surrendering to the Fullness of Yourself
    • 31:04 — Safety Within the Self
    • 32:45 — Trusting Life & The Unknown
    • 34:12 — Invitation Into RAW Retreat
    • 36:23 — Closing Transmission

    RAW: Men's Primal Embodiment Retreat

    About Dean:

    Dean Bentley is a speaker, mentor and host of The Wyrd Way podcast. Often called a Viking Priest, he guides deep transformational work through initiation, men’s work and embodied practice. His work helps people face what is real, reclaim fragmented parts of themselves, and live with grounded purpose, truth and creative power.
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