Two operators.
One conviction.
Asymmetric on purpose.
Mark and Dylan have spent their careers on opposite sides of the same problem. The combination is the company.
Mark Young — CEO, Ryze Agency.
The agency veteran with a functional medicine doctorate.
Mark is the CEO of Ryze Agency, a Fort Lauderdale-based digital performance marketing agency serving DTC, ecommerce, supplement, beverage, medical-device, and consumer-health brands. He’s spent roughly thirty years across the family of agency businesses — from traditional advertising through performance marketing and now AI-augmented agency operations.
The unusual thing about Mark is his second credential. He holds a doctorate in functional medicine. That puts him in an extremely small group of marketing CEOs who can hold their own clinically with the people on Dylan’s podcast roster — and who get taken seriously in a longevity conversation. The longevity press has noticed: he’s already been featured in BioHackers Magazine, which means he’s on the radar of the same audience Dylan owns.
His natural mode is teacher. The Kolbe profile reads “Quick Start Originator” — innovation-led, risk-tolerant, paired well with high follow-through partners. He’s a MENSA member. He’s an active speaker. He reverse-engineers a problem and then takes the time to teach anyone who will stop and listen. That is exactly the muscle a great agency partner needs.
The platforms he’s already built
- Ryze Agency — standalone digital performance shop, Telly Award winner, real campaigns across health, supplements, DTC, beverage, and medical devices. AI-forward operations across Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Klaviyo.
- Age Defiantly (formerly Performance Driven Living) — Mark’s existing podcast for high-performing adults who refuse to accept decline as a normal part of aging. Recent guests include Del Bigtree, Jay Campbell, JP Sears, Joe Polish, Dr. Nathan Goodyear, Dr. Scott Sherr, Dr. Christopher Motley, James Laughlin, and Eric Steigelfest.
- Fitter Over Fifty — owned editorial brand at fitteroverfifty.com covering health, biohacking, longevity, finance, and personal development for the 50+ audience.
- Four published books — Date Your Clients (client relationships as long-term relationships), Radical Generosity (giving as a leadership framework), Lower the Bar (gratitude and pace), and Ecommerce Brand’s Guide to the Galaxy (the operator playbook for DTC founders).
- Jekyll + Hyde Labs partnership — the active joint thesis that TV creates demand and digital closes the loop. A defensible point of view in a marketing landscape dominated by digital-only voices.
The network he can put in a chair
Working relationships, prior podcast guests, or close associates: JJ Virgin (founder of the Health Business Growth Collective, the most influential community of health entrepreneurs in the world). Joe Polish (Genius Network, I Love Marketing). Del Bigtree. Dr. Nasha Winters (integrative oncology authority). Jay Campbell. JP Sears. Dr. Nathan Goodyear, Dr. Scott Sherr, Dr. Christopher Motley. James Laughlin. And the J+H principals on TV/creative.
“Operators as much as marketers. Founders don’t need more noise. They need insight from someone who’s actually run a P&L this week.”
The voice
Operator-direct, dry humor, allergic to fluff. The kind of voice founders trust over time precisely because it doesn’t try to be liked in the first meeting. Mark’s consistent answer when asked what makes Ryze different: relationships matter. Not as a slogan — as an operating choice. Ryze’s entire roster is referral-built. He doesn’t plan to change that at RyzeUp.
Mark builds businesses.
Dylan builds audiences.
Dylan Gemelli — host, creator, educator.
The 1.5-million-person audience built on truth.
Dylan is the host of The Dylan Gemelli Podcast, a top-ranked health and biohacking show with 100+ episodes — consistently #1 in multiple health categories on Apple. He runs the Dylan Gemelli Biohacking YouTube channel (80K+ subscribers), a recently-launched second channel, and a primary Instagram distribution engine with around 1.5 to 1.6 million followers.
What makes Dylan’s audience different is not the size. It’s the trust. He built his name calling out scams in the supplement, hormone, and biohacking space — which means anything he eventually endorses carries weight an ad slot can’t replicate. His audience doesn’t scroll past him. They listen.
The credentials behind the voice
- NASM-certified personal trainer, fitness nutrition expert, fat-loss specialist, and group fitness instructor
- Certified cellular health coach (under Dr. Elizabeth Yurth)
- Integrative Health Practitioner
- Harvard Online Biology of Mitochondria coursework
- Recurring speaker: Mr. Olympia (including the 60th anniversary), Eudēmonia Summit, Ultimate Wellness Conference
- Bookable through Minnect and a dedicated “Hire Dylan” surface for speaking and brand collaborations
The brand values
Dylan’s public bio starts with three words: God first. The faith is on the surface, consistently expressed, and operationally lived — not theatrical. Husband, family-driven, and unapologetically anti-hype. His audience came to him for truth-telling, and they stay because he hasn’t broken that contract.
The guests he can put in a chair
Dr. William Li, Dave Asprey, Ben Greenfield, Dr. Steven Gundry, Dr. Eric Berg, Dr. Mariza Snyder, Cynthia Thurlow, Shawn Wells, Dr. Dave Rabin, Miesha Tate. Almost all of these guests are also operators — they have books, clinics, brands, supplement lines, or platforms they are actively building. They are exactly the kind of relationship that RyzeUp’s pipeline runs on.
“I’ve spent a decade earning the trust of millions of people who care about their bodies, their faith, and the truth. That trust isn’t for sale — but the right brand can earn its way in.”
What Dylan brings that Mark can’t
A pre-built audience of 1.5M+ that trusts him by name. Native talent for the camera and the microphone — hundreds of solo videos worth of reps and an instinctive read on what Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok rooms want from him in real time. The talent-side perspective: he understands what creators actually need from brand partners — and what they hate — at a level very few agency principals can match. And the distribution leverage that comes with it: anything Mark has built for clients in supplements, peptides, GLP-1, longevity, hormones, recovery, performance, or wellness — Dylan’s audience is already sitting in front of.
Where the strengths complement.
Where the asymmetry sits.
Dylan brings primary credibility as a trusted voice in health, biohacking, and longevity. Mark brings primary credibility as a builder of brands for founders across DTC and CPG.
Dylan’s native audience is consumers, creators, practitioners, and biohackers. Mark’s native audience is founders, agency owners, investors, and operators.
Dylan answers the question “How do I get people to listen?” Mark answers the question “How do I turn listening into a long-term business relationship?”
Dylan sits at the top of the funnel — attention, trust, demand creation. Mark sits at the bottom of the funnel — conversion, retention, attribution.
Dylan hates snake oil, scammy supplement claims, and vanity metrics. Mark hates agencies that don’t operate, ROAS without retention, and deckware.
What they share is the foundation. Faith, family, the long view, and an allergy to bullshit. The output is better than either of them produce alone because the friction is real and the values are aligned.