John is joined by Wedge LIVE lifestyle producer Paula Chesley for a miniseries featuring the stories of real people, not just surviving, but thriving through a Minneapolis winter. For this episode recorded January 1, 2023, we're at Lake Harriet narrating people jumping into a hole in the ice as if it's the Rose Parade. We speak with first timers, longtime ice dippers, and skeptical observers who live in the neighborhood. Then we head over to Embrace North, a sauna and ice bath facility in Linden Hills which helped organize this event. Paula ventures into the sauna for more conversation and gets the story from the founder of Embrace North, the self-styled Sauna Papi. From Guatemala, to California, to Minnesota -- Luis Leonardo talks about how he turned his dread of winter into a business and a community.

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