Mark Turner: A Marine’s New Mission in Life: The Overwatch Foundation
Enter the Lionheart
Lawrence Dunning
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
What an honor it was to spend some time talking to one of the most inspiring and fearless men I know! Former Recon Marine, Mark Turner, also a 3rd Degree Jiujitsu Blackbelt, and owner of the BJJ Lab Academy in Naperville is someone unique and capable enough to go to Ukraine on a rescue mission in 18 hours notice at the beginning of the Russian invasion!
Mark is now recruiting more former US Special Operations Veterans to train both Ukrainian military and civilians to fight the Russians through his nonprofit “The Overwatch Foundation”.
In the last year, “The Overwatch Foundation” has grown into so much more; a humanitarian nonprofit that's been assembling teams of U.S. Military Veterans to provide critical natural disaster relief and urgent humanitarian response communities all over the world. Mark isn't just sending heroes to help - he's been there, on the ground, many times over.
Support his incredible work at The Overwatch Foundation: www.overwatchfoundationusa.org
BJJ Lab Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy: www.bjjlabnaperville.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theoverwatchfoundation
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| 0:00.0 | A single theme is too narrow for great minds and daring hearts. |
| 0:06.6 | Get ready to enter the Lion Heart with your host, Lauren Stunning. |
| 0:10.6 | Hello and welcome back to End the Lion Heart. |
| 0:20.2 | Today's guest is an incredible human, Mark Turner, and Mark is really one of my heroes. |
| 0:26.0 | Huge thanks to one of Mark's students, BlackBell and all-around stud and my good friend, |
| 0:30.8 | Nick Lemanger, for inshusing us. |
| 0:33.6 | Nick tells me Mark is a beast on the mats and there's an old school BlackBell for every decade |
| 0:37.7 | that doesn't surprise me. |
| 0:39.5 | But aside from being a stud BlackBell and a great family man, Mark has two beautiful kids. |
| 0:44.9 | This ex-Recon Marine has started some incredible relief work to victims of natural disasters |
| 0:50.6 | and doing non-conventional support to community needs. |
| 0:54.5 | About 18 months ago he got a group together helping being the first responders to a hurricane. |
| 0:59.9 | Then he started a rescue team helping get people out of Afghanistan. |
| 1:04.2 | And now he's done multiple Ukrainian missions, he's saved countless lives, and he's really |
| 1:09.2 | making a difference to all the invaded people of Ukraine. |
| 1:12.4 | And the craziest thing is Mark started all of this, finding himself on his own credit |
| 1:16.4 | cards. |
| 1:17.4 | Today he's set up the Overwatch Foundation, which is a charity expanding into other countries |
| 1:22.1 | around the world, and he's doing incredible work in places like Africa, and he's combating |
| 1:26.4 | things like human trafficking, something that's very near and dear to my heart. |
| 1:30.5 | He seems to have found a new calling in life, and he's really made such a difference |
| 1:33.6 | in such a short amount of time, so I can't wait to talk to Mark about this journey and |
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