D’ Marko’ s personality is characterized by his choice of making major life decisions at the last moment and living life to the fullest. At this point he had arrived in the body building world. Magazines were looking for interviews, which gave D’ Marko notoriety.
In 1990 D’ Marko was offered a position starting a new Golds Gym in Las Vegas, Nevada where he had the resources to start educating others in the power of training and nutrition. While working at the gym, D’ Marko got a call to read for a new live show at the Rio Hotel and Casino called“ Tropical Heat” alongside three of the most beautiful women in Nevada. Although short lived, D’ Marko was doing three shows a night until an injury to his ankle closed the show permanently.
In 1992 he came back to Utah to take care of his mother who was suffering from cancer. He had to find a way to make a living so he started his own chain of fitness stores called“ Custom Fit Nutrition Centers”. Due to a divorce he was forced to sell his fitness stores, but this helped him to start up a whole new life in the fitness and wellness world with supplements and personal training.
D’ Marko met Erica at his birthday party through a mutual friend and they got married nine months later. Together they were determined to follow a life of fitness and health. Together they opened a retail supplement store, but due to the cost of competition and online sales they sold it a few years later. When he and Erica discovered Dub nutrition, it gave them a format where customers could work out in the gym for free in exchange for a monthly supplement purchase and giving back to their communities for one hour a week. The pay-it-forward concept became not just a lifestyle, but their own personal goal.
Erica was a 36-year single mother of two with fibromyalgia, a non-stop chronic pain disorder, who had had three surgeries to remove cancer lesions when she met D’ Marko. At the time, she was going through a divorce after eighteen years of marriage.“ I’ ve been ill as far back as I can remember, starting in my 20s,” states Erica. But as a young mother, she didn’ t have the time to be sick so she turned to prescriptions to cope. She was on pills to help her sleep, stay awake, deal with pain, keep calm, reduce headaches and nausea. Her whole life felt like a lie.