Welcome back to the show. I'm just back from Australia. So we will be resuming publishing schedule with spit and the grit. I have a stockpile of episodes recorded in Australia, which I'll be rolling out in the coming months. Today's show is actually not in my recording schedule when I was on the ground in Australia, but it happens spontaneously.

I was at the Visla, Sydney Surf Pro, and Westberg casually introduced me to today's guest, Brett

Canellan. And not as a potential podcast guest, but just as a, hey, David, meet Brett,

Brett, meet David. And as as we started chatting Brett was telling me

that he was potentially going to be doing some small QS events this year but mentioned that he was on

a long path of recovery from an injury so of course I inquired about the injury and it turns out

that he had survived a great white shark attack as he he told me a story, I realized that I had seen

it reported in the news two years ago, a year and a half ago or so, and how incredible it was

that Brett survived, but also just how harrowing the details of that specific attack were.

It turns out that Brett has been doing some public speaking, telling his story,

so I felt comfortable asking him to be a guest on the podcast and to retell the vivid details

here. So, prepare yourself. The story is insane. I mean, the attack story itself is insanely

dramatic, but also Brett's perspective, how he processed the attack,

and his journey through recovery are all equally profound. I think there are countless insights

here to be gleaned for how to remain calm and pragmatic when facing a life-threatening

confrontation, shark attack or otherwise, and then also just how to leverage a trauma

to empower growth. And then there's some interesting stuff about how to meaningfully connect with

loved ones. This is Brett Kenellen, ladies and gentlemen, and I am David Scales for Surf Splendor.

I really hope that you enjoy our conversation. Yeah, so I was actually in a really, really good place in my life.

I had just come off a couple of results surfing for my board riders club, where we'd done

really well.

We'd run a regional qualifier and ended up surfing in the

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