I'm Tyler Drake. Tyzen is the name I have chosen. It represents the culmination and integration of the two main arcs in my life. The entrepreneur and the medicine man.
Arc one · The entrepreneur
Tech Ty, and the way of the world.
I started building computers at ten years old. Thirty-one years with technology; they called me Tech Tyler. By fourteen I was an entrepreneur, and I spent the next two decades learning the way of the world and how to succeed inside that paradigm. Not all of it was pretty. A kiosk empire collapsed when I was twenty-three: ulcers, hair falling out, the first of three financial resets. Then Avanti Body Jewelry, a retail business I built and ran for fifteen years. Over $7M in revenue generated. Six Tony Robbins events in two years: on stage at Business Mastery, Platinum Partners, Date with Destiny, walking fire at Unleash the Power Within. And inside all of it, one discovery that still runs everything I build: when people thrive in their unique ability, the organization manages itself. No management needed, because we are operating in our inspiration: our spirit in action.
The opening · 2017
Ayahuasca, and the beginning of the awakening.
In 2017 I sat with Ayahuasca for the first time. It was the beginning of the awakening: the unraveling of the programs and beliefs that had been imprinted on me, and the beginning of deep clarity about my soul and my mission in this incarnation. Then came the reconciliation: how I was living, how I was operating, how I was relating to my businesses, my friendships, my family and my romantic relationship. That was the beginning of building the Tyzen operating system from first principles.
Arc two · The medicine man
Nine years down the rabbit holes.
From 2021 to 2024 I moved through more than twelve You:Transformed retreats, first as a participant, then as a co-creator. Arkadia in July of 2022. Burning Man that summer. A seven-day Joe Dispenza immersion that fall: thirty-five hours of meditation. Fit For Service in October. Envision in Costa Rica. Then Ayahuasca with the Yawanawá, which led me to Brazil: eight hours up the river into Acre with Chief Nixiwaka and Putani, feeling what real tribe is like, my western beliefs shifting, the seed of the wisdom of nature-based people taking root. Egypt for fourteen days, meditating in the paws of the Sphinx. The Andes with Quechua elders, where I learned the name for what I was becoming: a chakaruna, a bridge person. And from 2023 on, the turn from seeker to steward: co-facilitating the containers that had remade me.
Arc three · The convergence
The Soul Mission Catalyst.
I've done it myself, and now I'm supporting you to live the most expansive, supportive, connective, peaceful, passionate and abundant life. Rolling all the lessons and (b)lessons forward into you.