Swell With My Soul

By Donald Brink

What's Swell With My Soul about?

Told through encounters on his travels, Donald Brink conducts conversations with professional surfers, clients, and strangers about surfboards and the value they add to one’s ocean going experience.

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Swell With My Soul episodes:

12.24.2022
YouLane: Episode 6
In episode six Donald and Ashton discuss how to erase worry, subconscious obstacles, how the way we respond to a wave is precisely what surfing is, self identify tension and pain receptors and the reality we all face of wasting...
12.24.2022
YouLane: Episode 5
In episode five Donald introduces Jimmy Thompson. The two chat about how to progress in surfing, being in the right mental and physical place, re-setting in the water, setting expectation, looking too far down the line, bottom turns and body...
12.24.2022
YouLane: Episode 4
In episode four Donald and Ashton discuss stealing a surf vs investing in your best hours and surfing as productivity and experiment on a 6’4” Twin fin for Sunset,Pipe/ Backdoor, introduce you to Jimmy and his boards. They also chat about...
12.24.2022
YouLane: Episode 3
In episode three we do a Petri dish of experiments, discuss going to extremes then tailoring it back to learn the middle, the UBUNTU, riding tiny or small boards along side the longer rail experiments, how the day you know...
12.24.2022
YouLane: Episode 2
In episode two we begin our first experiment; an original Stewart tri-fin, belly channel, recreation along with a post-surf at the beach review captured. Donald and Ashton discuss recreating something vs capturing something/essence, understanding keepsakes of a boards design, killing...
12.24.2022
YouLane: Episode 1
Welcome to YouLane. In this first episode Donald and Ashton outline the concept of You-Lane project, discussing intention, sought out learnings, and the bonuses you glean as you move, the importance of being you, and forecast for the first experiments....
10.28.2021
048 - You A Happy Surfer
You a happy surfer. Conceptual marination of stoke. Asking questions, and openhandedness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
10.06.2021
047 - Reflection, Your Questions
Asking yourself you right questions. Maintaining balance. Pursuing design that brings smiles. Keep the tricks, choose an evaluation of your path Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
06.30.2021
046 - Variable Learning
Eliminate variety. Embrace the learnings you cannot predict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
06.25.2021
045 - Exercise Variety
Being a student of ones own surfing. Referencing honest bench marks and embracing variety to reveal constants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
06.11.2021
044 - Building Things You Know Won't Work
Building things you know won't work. Design paths and honest sensations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
06.03.2021
043 - Surfing When You're Sad
Self help at your fingertips, every wave. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
05.10.2021
042 - Simplify It To One Rail
Reset thinking to reset rail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
01.07.2021
041 - Creative Plans, Just Start
Surf racks, creased boards, and momentum in new creative endeavors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
12.03.2020
040 - Scared Surfless
Tentative imminent sessions after memorable flow days. Your surfing and the radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
11.13.2020
039 - Narrow Misses And Wide Smiles
In this episode we walk through the correspondence of the entire order process for Sean. Design a board to push him and suit his surfing stance. He calls in with honest frustrations, glowing memories from recent rides. Then we curate...
10.26.2020
038 - Thirty Six Things Trying To Be Learned
Without giving advice, what would the top concepts be worth proving to yourself and bouncing to another. Cherry picked from a birthday perspective. Age and surfing. A letter to a young man. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
10.09.2020
037 - Right Fix, Wrong Problem
What was making the front foot land off center nine times out of ten. Was chasing the resonance in a board a mute point ? Leaning to relearn as we grow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
09.23.2020
036 - Unqualified Coaching
Variety of craft, friends filming, front feet and short sessions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
09.10.2020
035 - Pushing Yourself When It Counts
Pushing your self when things are going fast. Creating creative margins. Doing the long yards in the most focused seasons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
08.27.2020
034 - Pursuing Excellence, Not Perfection
The mystery in craft. Going the extra mile. Process and wonder. Being dedicated when things go wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
08.13.2020
033 - The Plural Of Fun In Surfing
Same joys with a more granular appreciation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
07.29.2020
032 - Learning What You Need To Remember
Observations from afar and a balance of positive tendencies forever. The depth in your surfing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
07.22.2020
031 - Nathan's Phone Order For The Islands And More
Round nose pitfalls, resonance and the practicality of width. A phone conversation with Nathan about his custom order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
07.15.2020
030 - Custom Order Phone Call
A look into how JJ went through the order process. From initial inquiry to a phone call and video assessment too. Honest review of his surfing path and real expectations of where he wants to take it. Learn more about your...
07.08.2020
029 - It Is What It Is, Or Isn't
Accessing your own challenges and settling at altitudes that make for real memories. It's all up to you. Surfing the constant magnifier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
06.25.2020
028 - Easy Isn't Always True
Things are designed to work better and promote ease. Experimenting with honest assessments on vintage concepts. Sometimes difficult things show simpler truths. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
06.18.2020
027 - Self Correction Through Variety
Switching things up can be refreshing. Paying attention to the initial feedback can magnify the weakest areas in ones approach. Before things get camouflaged, rather than improved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
06.09.2020
026 - Down Rails with a Side of Frustration
Eighties down rails and Jame's first dozen surfs. Thinking about what you're doing and when to stop thinking and just surf. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
05.20.2020
025 - Dougal Paterson
African ,wild, crazy, honest and true. Big wave friend and community pillar. Dougal explains how he has come to find the thin spaces in his life. Surfing, photography and intentions. He pursues the highest echelons of them all. Learn more about...
05.12.2020
024 - Re-Surfacing: Targets and Timing
Targets and timing. Re-Surfacing observations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
05.05.2020
023 - Re-Surfacing: Mario Wehle
A conversation with Mario Wehle in Portugal. He offers insight on how he is managing his team and servicing surfers at this time. Magic Quiver, located in Ericeira, from surf shop, to lodge, breakfast deli, restaurant, oyster bar and more....
04.29.2020
022 - Re-Surfacing: Asher King
Setting realistic expectations for a return to surfing. Asher offers insight that can help us be kind to ourselves and one-another. Whilst acknowledging this severe global crisis; reflecting on all parts of life and the ties between them. Being removed from...
04.21.2020
021 - Re-Surfacing: Dane Gudauskas
Whilst acknowledging this severe global crisis; reflecting on all parts of life and the ties between them. Being removed from surfing and each other. Looking forward to days ahead and examining the depths that surfing can bring, has brought and the...
04.07.2020
020 - Creative Kin: Travis Reynolds
In this new 6 part series surfboard shaper Donald Brink spends a week in the mountains with board builders and artists. Today he chats with Travis Reynolds about humility, balancing family life with productivity, and the benefit of finding a...
03.30.2020
019 - Creative Kin: Jay Nelson
In this new 6 part series surfboard shaper Donald Brink spends a week in the mountains with board builders and artists. Today he chats with Jay Nelson about the perils of perfectionism, the virtue of doing it yourself, and the...
03.24.2020
018 - Creative Kin: Derrick Disney
In this new 6 part series surfboard shaper Donald Brink spends a week in the mountains with board builders and artists. Today he chats with Derrick Disney about a youthful mindset, the joy of the Twinzer, and how to balance...
03.17.2020
017 - Creative Kin: Cliff Kapono
In this new 6 part series surfboard shaper Donald Brink spends a week in the mountains with board builders and artists. Today he chats with Cliff Kapono about his science based perspective on how to cultivate creativity. Enjoy! Learn more about...
03.11.2020
016 - Creative Kin: Jason Woodside
In this new 6 part series surfboard shaper Donald Brink spends a week in the mountains with board builders and artists. Today he chats with Jason Woodside about his creative process and how nature is represented through the geometry and...
03.05.2020
015 - Creative Kin: Jeff McCallum
In this new 6 part series surfboard shaper Donald Brink spends a week in the mountains with board builders and artists. Today he chats with Jeff McCallum about the fallacy of "sustainable" surfboards, the virtues of the twin-fin Egg, and...
03.04.2020
014 - Creative Kin in Bonny Doon
In the mountains of Bonny Doon, California, Donald Brink connects with Jeff McCallum, Jason Woodside, Cliff Kapono, Derrick Disney, Jay Nelson, and Travis Reynolds to discuss surfboards, art, and the creative process. This is the introduction to our six part...
01.16.2020
013 - A King's Relationship and a Peasant's Toys
First conversation with Asher King on why to surf for the right reason and when to do the wrong thing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
07.10.2019
012 – One Turn: Sunny 100, Part 3
Sunny 100: Part 3. One turn sessions. Focused intentions through overwhelming tasks with pure expectations. Keeping sessions simple. Follow @DonaldBrink CREDITS Host, Producer, Writer: Donald Brink @DonaldBrink Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
06.18.2019
011 – Surf Mastery Peek
Sampled look into Surf Mastery Podcast interview with host Mike Frampton. Discussing boards, technique and much more. Follow @Donald Brink CREDITS Host, Producer, Writer: Donald Brink @DonaldBrink Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
05.10.2019
010 – Thank You Surfing. Notes from The Boardroom Show 2019
Love letters to surfing written among dazzling lures; from surfers in the booth at the Boardroom Show. A precious insight to peoples perspective on surfing and the crafts. Surfing a gift. CREDITS Host, Writer, Producer: Donald Brink @DonaldBrink Music: Cello...
04.03.2019
009 – Balanced Chat On Asymmetrical’s with Nick Carroll in Australia 2019
An asymmetrical conversation with Nick Carroll. The cans of worms and dedication to cohesion. Follow @DonaldBrink CREDITS Host, Writer, Editor: Donald Brink @DonaldBrink Music: The Rival, The Best of Us Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
03.05.2019
008 – Mothership: 13′ 11 1/2″ Modern Olo
Collaboration project with Dane Gudauskas. An “Olo” inspired modern take on a long length. First board of 2019. A special shape embracing functional design. Follow @DonaldBrink and @DaneDamus CREDITS Host, Writer, Producer: Donald Brink @DonaldBrink Music: Herb Alpert and the...
01.31.2019
007 – Vulnerability: Sunny 100, Part 2
When you look at some one and tell them you love them and don’t care at all what they think of you. When you mean and feel it all. An epicenter of courage. Exploring vulnerability. Follow @DonaldBrink and BrinkSurf.com CREDITS Host, Writer, Producer:...
01.18.2019
006 – Sunny 100: Part 1
An introduction to a series dedicated to developing depth in your surfing. If you keep imagining how things should be, you can miss how things really are. Follow @DonaldBrink and BrinkSurf.com CREDITS Host, Writer, Producer: Donald Brink @DonaldBrink Music: George...
01.09.2019
005 – Dream Tour Year: Patrick Gudauskas 2018 Unpacked
On again, off again, hold again. An honest telling of performance and the visualization possible when you focus. The ultimate positive vibe warrior. Patrick shares stoke and stories openly with a humble heart and offers lessons for all. Follow @PatrickGud...

What's Swell With My Soul about?

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Swell With My Soul episodes:

YouLane: Episode 6

YouLane: Episode 5

YouLane: Episode 4

YouLane: Episode 3

YouLane: Episode 2

YouLane: Episode 1

048 - You A Happy Surfer

047 - Reflection, Your Questions

046 - Variable Learning

045 - Exercise Variety

044 - Building Things You Know Won't Work

043 - Surfing When You're Sad

042 - Simplify It To One Rail

041 - Creative Plans, Just Start

040 - Scared Surfless

039 - Narrow Misses And Wide Smiles

038 - Thirty Six Things Trying To Be Learned

037 - Right Fix, Wrong Problem

036 - Unqualified Coaching

035 - Pushing Yourself When It Counts

034 - Pursuing Excellence, Not Perfection

033 - The Plural Of Fun In Surfing

032 - Learning What You Need To Remember

031 - Nathan's Phone Order For The Islands And More

030 - Custom Order Phone Call

029 - It Is What It Is, Or Isn't

028 - Easy Isn't Always True

027 - Self Correction Through Variety

026 - Down Rails with a Side of Frustration

025 - Dougal Paterson

024 - Re-Surfacing: Targets and Timing

023 - Re-Surfacing: Mario Wehle

022 - Re-Surfacing: Asher King

021 - Re-Surfacing: Dane Gudauskas

020 - Creative Kin: Travis Reynolds

019 - Creative Kin: Jay Nelson

018 - Creative Kin: Derrick Disney

017 - Creative Kin: Cliff Kapono

016 - Creative Kin: Jason Woodside

015 - Creative Kin: Jeff McCallum

014 - Creative Kin in Bonny Doon

013 - A King's Relationship and a Peasant's Toys

012 – One Turn: Sunny 100, Part 3

011 – Surf Mastery Peek

010 – Thank You Surfing. Notes from The Boardroom Show 2019

009 – Balanced Chat On Asymmetrical’s with Nick Carroll in Australia 2019

008 – Mothership: 13′ 11 1/2″ Modern Olo

007 – Vulnerability: Sunny 100, Part 2

006 – Sunny 100: Part 1

005 – Dream Tour Year: Patrick Gudauskas 2018 Unpacked