Today we have Preston Russ joining us on the podcast. Preston is my teammate at True Art Jiu Jitsu, which is where we met. Preston was interested in coming on the show to talk about raising daughters. We both have been blessed with daughters and have a bond with our shared experience. Preston's daughters are younger than my daughter, but I think most of us can relate to the struggles of raising children in general. Either by raising them ourselves, or remembering how much grief we gave our parents when we were young.

Preston grew up in southern Ohio. He went to the Ohio State University to study Poly Science and Economics. One day after getting into some trouble on campus he decided to stop into the Marine recruiters office to see what they could offer him. Preston decided to join the Marines and that started him down a whole new path in life. During college, Preston met his wife and they committed to a long distance relationship. Through lots of hard work and dedication on both of their parts they made it all work and have been married for 10 years at this point.

Preston's first duty station with the Marine Corps was in Okinawa Japan. Preston and his wife were stationed in Okinawa for three and a half years. After that he was sent back to the states for the last three years of his military career. That's when he and his wife decided it was time to move onto new adventures in the private sector.

Preston started jiu jitsu in January of 2018 with our coach Shannon White. When Shannon opened his own gym, True Art Jiu Jitsu, he went there along with everyone training under Shannon at the time. Preston has competed at some big IBJJF tournaments. He has competed at the IBJJF Cincinnati Open and twice at the IBJJF Chicago Open which are very big regional tournaments. I'm sure he will be competing in many more to come as he has some big goals in jiu jitsu.

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