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The Everyday Drengr E1: This is 37

Something shifted when I turned 37. Not overnight. Not dramatically. But enough to make me stop and ask a question I should’ve asked years ago: What if I stopped trying to become somebody else? This first episode of The Everyday Drengr is a raw conversation about identity, perfection culture, self-worth, and the strange pressure so many of us carry to constantly optimize ourselves into exhaustion. To become: more successful. more disciplined. more productive. more impressive. And what happens when even with a good support system… even with people reminding us we’re enough… that quiet voice still sits in the back of our minds telling us to become more. This episode isn’t about giving you a way out. I don’t have one. But I can sit with you for a while and remind you that you’re not walking through life alone. We talk about: ⚔️ perfection culture ☕ identity and self-acceptance 🌲 masculinity and vulnerability 🍲 intentional living 🏠 learning to revel in what you are If this conversation resonates with you: 🔥 Follow I Am Heathen… and So Can You for new episodes of The Everyday Drengr every Tuesday 🌲 Share this with somebody who’s been carrying too much lately ⚔️ Leave a rating and join the conversation Build well. Feed your people. Keep the fires burning, my friends.

Introducing: The Everyday Drengr | A New Series on Living Well 🌲☕

For a long time on I Am Heathen… and So Can You, we’ve talked about belief. Ritual. Community. Philosophy. The old wisdom. But lately I’ve found myself asking a different question: Not— “What do I believe?” But— “How do I live?” So I’m opening another door in the house. Introducing The Everyday Drengr — a new weekly series under I Am Heathen… and So Can You. Every Tuesday, we’ll explore: ⚔️ Strength without cruelty ☕ Ritual in ordinary life 🍲 Hospitality and feeding your people 🌲 Style without vanity 🚶 Mental health and reflection 🏠 Building a life worth coming home to This isn’t self-help. This isn’t hustle culture. This isn’t optimization disguised as wisdom. This is about living intentionally. Becoming more fully yourself. And learning to revel in what you are. Episode One arrives soon. Subscribe, follow, and share if you want to walk with us from philosophy into practice. Pull up a chair. Feed your people. Keep the fires burning, my friends.

E33: Modern Masculinity, Loneliness & the Search for Meaning

What does masculinity actually look like in 2026? Not performance. Not outrage. Not algorithm-driven “alpha male” theater designed to sell insecurity back to lonely people at a markup. Real masculinity. The kind rooted in: ⚔️ responsibility 🌲 community 🍲 hospitality 🔥 emotional honesty 🪓 discipline without cruelty In this episode of I Am Heathen… and So Can You, we explore the growing crisis of modern masculinity, the isolation many men quietly carry, and the way spirituality, community, intentional living, and reciprocal relationships can help create healthier understandings of strength and manhood. Because masculinity was never supposed to mean emotional emptiness. It was supposed to mean: showing up, protecting your people, feeding your people, being dependable, and building something that outlasts you. This episode also discusses: ⚔️ loneliness in modern society 🌲 performative masculinity online 🔥 why community matters 🍲 the role of hospitality and service 🧠 spirituality, discipline, and self-reflection ⚔️ what modern Heathenry can teach about intentional living If this conversation resonates with you: 🔥 like, rate, and share the episode 🌲 send it to someone who’s been struggling quietly ⚔️ follow I Am Heathen… and So Can You and The Common Hearth for more discussions on philosophy, spirituality, masculinity, community, and modern Heathen living The world is cold enough already. Feed your people.

We'll be back Next Week!!

after two weeks of dealing with the heavy start of allergy season in new york. Einar will be back next week with more episodes!!

E32:Rán’s Net, Hel’s Hall: The Missing Piece of the Norse Afterlife

In this episode of I Am Heathen and So Can You, we dive into one of the stranger questions in Norse mythology: what happens to the drowned? Odin and Freyja claim the war dead, Hel receives the dead in Helheim, but Rán only has her net. So where do those taken by the sea actually go? Using saga clues, Norse cosmology, death deity theology, and modern Heathen UPG, this episode explores whether Rán may be her own goddess of the drowned, an aspect of Hel, or part of a larger divine system of death, gathering, and reciprocity. This is not dogma. It is an invitation to wrestle with the sources.