DunkersPodcast
DunkersPodcast
Podcast Description
Cold water dunking boosts mood, builds resilience, and connects communities. With dopamine surges of up to 250%, (like a cold water cocaine high!) dunking offers natural energy, calm, and structure. From ocean swims to urban dips, dunking improves circulation, lifts spirits, and strengthens bonds. The DunkersPodcast shares these stories—funny, raw, and real—celebrating the power of cold water and connection. We chat with Dunkers both locally and afar, leaving questions for the next, creating a chain of curiosity and continuity that reflects the interconnected nature of the community. Join us
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast explores themes of resilience, mental health, and community connection through cold water experiences, with episodes focusing on unique personal stories like those of Jenny & Kay's friendship and romance tales as seen in 'Danger Dogs to Dunking Dates', alongside practical advice from water safety experts like Phil Woods.
The DunkersPodcast is a warm, uplifting and often hilarious podcast exploring cold water swimming, sea dipping, community wellbeing and coastal life from Abersoch in the Llyn, North Wales.
Through inspiring conversations, adventures & honest storytelling, we meet ocean people, adventurers, scientists, community builders and lives which have been transformed by the sea, friendship and the joy of cold water.
This year please also follow ‘Voices of the Land’; our unique Dunkers series capturing the spirit of the People, Power and the Places who craft and influence North Wales and Llyn Peninsular
Today it’s exciting that we have with us Keith Brymer-Jones and Marj Hogarth – the potters millions will know from the TV series ‘The Great Pottery Throw down” – Before the television came the clay; before the clay came the person; and now that person is helping give a forgotten place a new life; and across Wales there are buildings that quietly hold the fingerprints of generations.
In Pwllheli, one such place is Capel Salem — a building with a long memory and now a very different future
This episode speaks directly within our Voices of the Land series which features the People, Purposes and Places of North Wales which have reached, and influenced, so many generations.
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