Ryze Up — the show for founders who refuse to choose.
A joint podcast from Mark Young and Dylan Gemelli. Build the business. Build the body. Build the legacy.
Mark builds businesses. Dylan builds audiences. Ryze Up is the show for the founder who needs to do both.
Two operators. Two devout Christians. One conviction: business is the platform — not the destination. We exist to help entrepreneurs build companies that build legacy, in bodies that last long enough to enjoy them, with values strong enough to leave behind.
Hosted by an agency CEO and a top-tier creator who have built businesses, built audiences, and built lives around something larger than the next quarter.
A category of one.
There is a polite, devotional-leaning Christian-business podcast genre. There is a secular, hustle-coded business podcast genre. The space between them — Christian foundation with operator-grade output — is almost empty.
There is a deep longevity-and-health podcast genre. There is a deep DTC-and-ecommerce podcast genre. The space between them — entrepreneurs who care about both at the same time — is occupied at the gathering level (JJ Virgin’s Mindshare, Joe Polish’s Genius Network) but almost empty at the public-podcast level.
Ryze Up sits at the intersection of all four. Operator-grade output. Christian foundation. Longevity-fluent. Built for the entrepreneur who wants the whole equation, not half of it.
Eight content arcs. One operating premise.
The Audience-to-Business Pipeline
Why most creators fail to launch a product. The economics of being a creator vs owning a brand. Sponsor deals, equity, and royalties — the actual math. How to validate a product without selling vapor.
The Business-to-Audience Pipeline
Why the founder is the brand now. Building a personal brand alongside a product brand. How to start a YouTube channel at fifty without dying inside. Storytelling for founders who don’t think they’re storytellers.
Longevity For The Operator Class
The longevity stack for entrepreneurs who don’t have time to be biohackers. GLP-1 for high performers. Hormone optimization. Sleep, training, and travel. Mental health, recovery, and the operator’s nervous system.
DTC, Ecommerce & The Modern Brand
FDA/FTC compliance for supplement marketing. Meta funnels for wellness DTC. Subscription, bundling, and LTV. The creator-as-brand vs the brand-as-creator — which model scales further.
TV, Digital & The Full-Funnel Brand
Why “TV is dead” is wrong — and the data that proves it. How TV creates demand and digital closes the loop. CTV and streaming for wellness brands. Podcast advertising as a creator-and-brand channel.
AI In The Operator’s Stack
What AI is actually doing inside a working agency in 2026 — not theory, not prompts. AI in creative. The agency of 2027. Should creators be using AI to run their own ads? When yes, when no.
The Foundation Series
Radical Generosity in business. Faith and entrepreneurship — without the cliché. Stewardship of the platform. Family-first business. Burnout, recovery, gratitude, legacy vs exit. The show’s beating heart.
The Founder Hot Seat & Roast Files
Roast The Brand: a $5M supplement company asks for honest feedback on air. Founder Hot Seat: real founders bring real problems, we solve them on air. Live consulting. No deck-ware.
Weekly main + bonus drop. Video-first. Operator-paced.
Cadence. Weekly main episode (Tuesday, 55–75 min) plus a bonus drop (Friday, 12–18 min). Filmed in person whenever possible, always video-first.
Recurring segments. The Open — what each of us is watching this week. The Main — long-form interview or topic tear-down. Roast The Brand — monthly, audience-submitted. Founder Hot Seat — monthly, real problem, on-air solve. AI In The Wild — monthly, real agency work with real numbers. TV vs Digital — quarterly themed episode. The Foundation Episode — quarterly, off the marketing playbook entirely. The Roundtable — quarterly, three or four guests on a single category-defining topic.
The blacklist. Direct host-read integrations only. Joint sponsor blacklist agreed before episode one. We don’t take work or sponsorships that conflict with the values of the audience or the hosts. The list is shorter than people assume. It exists.
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