REPLAY: The Brown Claw and Losing Bren with Dave Fusilli

Have you ever wondered how the legendary Brown Claw got started?

Dave Fusilli runs West Coast sales and marketing for Pyranha Kayaks, is a longtime IR athlete, and is one of the founders of Demshitz and the Brown Claw. In this replay of one of the most downloaded episodes of The Discomfort Zone Podcast, Anna Levesque, former professional whitewater kayaker and founder of Mind Body Paddle, gets the real origin story, then asks Dave about the hardest stretch of his life.

Paddling icon Bren Orton traveled in the Pyranha van with Dave for years. Dave says he was always afraid of THAT phone call. Then it came.

If you want to be able to hold joy and grief at the same, this one is for you.

In this episode:

• Where the Brown Claw actually came from

• What Dave does above a big waterfall when his heart rate is up and his muscles stop cooperating

• Why Dave gives people 5 chances

• How he navigated the devastating loss of Bren

Listen in, stop taking yourself too seriously, and go throw somebody the Brown Claw.