The world has changed. Everywhere you look, the conversations about masculinity seemed to swing between extremes either glorifying the worst stereotypes or condemning the very idea of being a man at all. I’d seen Young guys keep saying the same thing: “I feel lost. Nobody ever taught me how to actually be a man.” That’s when it clicked. If the culture was shifting and the expectations were changing, then someone needed to build a bridge something real, something grounded, something that didn’t mock the idea of masculinity but didn’t cling blindly to the past either. So we gathered a team of mentors, coaches, who had each lived through their own battles: entrepreneurs, fathers, athletes, old school craftsmen whose hands told more stories than their words ever could. Together, we created Ascension University. Every day, we watched men step up, rebuild themselves, and rediscover what they thought they had lost. take the first steps to light a path towards the man you always knew you could become