You’re destined for greatness! You know your life has deeper purpose. You just can’t seem to get there. Has a history of difficult or tragic life experiences left you feeling drained, struggling with relationships, having financial challenges, and/or desiring to get “unstuck “ and grow? Trauma, loss, separation, and adverse life experiences can leave one feeling lost and searching for more than this current life; a deeper richer life. You want to heal and embrace your natural intuitive abilities but don’t know where to start. At Ascension Counseling Services you will find yourself and your balance again. Let’s talk!

In addition to providing Psychotherapy for mental health and healing, at Ascension Counseling you will delve into holistic methods like Hypnotherapy to help you thrive! With my methods you will rediscover your most authentic you and learn to live from heart-space! You will dance, and sing, and enjoy that child-like wonder and freedom we are meant to have!
I know what it’s like for memories to turn into tears, turning away, snapping at your kids or spouse, in and out of moods, and even panic attacks. I also know what it’s like to be destined for something greater and seemingly not able to achieve it! Being sensitive in a rough world means you’ve struggled. Truth is, you don’t have to!

Valeriya Hjertenaes is a globally recognized expert, PhD researcher, and keynote speaker who specializes in the intersection of neurodiversity, sustainability, and leadership. Based in Europe, she reframes cognitive diversity as a powerful strategic advantage for organizations and boards, moving far beyond mere inclusion toward sustainable human performance.

Melanie Curtis is a Keynote Speaker, World Record Pro Skydiver, Peak Performance Coach and Comedy Content Creator. Melanie teaches sales teams and leaders in the finance and insurance industries how to access results and impact to match their ambition.

Melanie delivers mind-bending keynote experiences inspiring driven professional women across industries into the far edges of their potential. She has 12,000 skydives, has competed at the highest levels and has traveled the globe as a headlining professional athlete coaching thousands of people over the last 30 years. She challenges audiences to “do ridiculous things” and consider the unfathomable extremes of their ideas, vision and goals to unlock true outlier results.

Melanie has spoken for MasterCard, BCG, PNC Bank, Brown & Brown Insurance, Scott Insurance, NJ Conference for Women, Athleta, NatGeo, Cornell University, Middlebury College (her alma mater), and more.

Melanie has worked with Weird Al Yankovic, Megan Rapinoe, the RedBull Air Force and more. She has spoken on the same TED-Ed stage as Gloria Steinem. She has emceed ahead of Jameela Jamil and in front of 20,000 in the Angel City FC stadium. Melanie has also landed a parachute in that stadium, as well as Dodger Stadium, Lumen Field in Seattle, and the Great Pyramids in Egypt.

Melanie has been tapped as an expert on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, NBC Know Your Value, Forbes, Entrepreneurs on Fire, Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman the Founder of LinkedIn, and more.

Melanie has authored 3 books, including How to Fly: Life Lessons From a Professional Skydiver.

Melanie co-founded Highlight, an all-female parachute demonstration team, using skydiving as a vehicle to champion equality. She also received the first-ever Mentorship Award for the entire Parachute Industry Association.

Melanie offers immersive digital challenges and science-backed tools to help those that resonate with her energy and message to dig in and actually DO what it really takes to get there.

Melanie does all this in parallel with a fierce and rebellious commitment to her own creative expression and leadership by example. She is a cat Mom and rising comedy content creator on Instagram – follow her @melaniecurtis11. She has done large-scale art installations and is consistently using her public platform championing women and girls to take up unapologetic space in the world.

Known as the “Menopause Researcher” to her 350,000+ TikTok followers, Andrea Donsky is a nutritionist on a mission to change the conversation around perimenopause and menopause.

Andrea is a 7X published menopause researcher, bestselling author, and entrepreneur with 26 years of experience in health and wellness. She is a multi-award-winning influencer, media personality, and speaker.

She hosts the popular podcast Menopause Reimagined, appears as a Menopause Expert on television across North America, and has built a large global, menopause-focused TikTok community.

Andrea is the founder of Morphus (wearemorphus.com), a platform that helps women Reimagine Menopause as a journey of empowerment. Through evidence-informed nutrition, lifestyle strategies, and science-backed supplements, Morphus supports women in feeling heard, validated, and confident as they take control of their health and symptoms.

Her new book, Nourishing Menopause: Powerful Nutrition and Lifestyle Strategies to Feel Your Best, published by Simon and Schuster, was released on May 5th and became an instant bestseller and appeared on many bestseller lists, including Amazon, Indigo, The Toronto Star, and The Globe and Mail in two categories: Canadian Non-Fiction and Self-Improvement.

Follow Andrea on TikTok, Instagram, and LinkedIn at @andreadonsky and @wearemorphus.

Biography from Matt's website: www.mattantkowiak.com

I'm Matt Antkowiak.

I am a husband, father, grandfather, survivor, protector, author, speaker, and co-founder of Team Unconquerable. My life has been shaped by a simple belief: darkness thrives when good people remain silent, and lives change when ordinary people choose to stand and protect others.

As a child, I was sexually abused by a trusted family friend. Like many survivors, I carried the weight of that trauma in silence for decades. The abuse stole part of my childhood, shaped how I viewed trust, and left wounds that would follow me into adulthood. For years, I searched for ways to outrun the pain. Instead, God used it to forge a purpose.

I spent the next forty years pursuing the very darkness that wounded me.

My journey of service has taken me from the United States Army, where I served first as a Military Police noncommissioned officer before commissioning as an Infantry Officer serving with the 101st Airborne Division, to the fire service as a firefighter and EMT, and ultimately into law enforcement. Along the way I served as a patrol officer, detective, human trafficking investigator, police chief, and school safety leader. I have worked major criminal investigations, led crisis responses, helped expose institutional failures, and dedicated my career to protecting children and vulnerable communities.

I am also an 8th Degree Black Belt, Krav Maga Grandmaster, and lifelong student of the warrior mindset. Through martial arts, leadership development, and public safety service, I have spent decades teaching others how to prepare for adversity, face fear, and protect those entrusted to their care.

I am the author of Unconquerable, a memoir that tells the story of a sexually abused boy who spent the next forty years hunting the very darkness that wounded him. It is a story about trauma, justice, faith, healing, and redemption. More importantly, it is a call to action.

My story is not ultimately about what happened to me. It is about what God can do with broken things. My abuse became my purpose. My pain became my platform. My story became my mission.

Today, that mission is clear:

Protect the Vulnerable. Expose the Darkness. Build Protectors.

MY MISSION
Building a Generation of Protectors

For most of my life, I thought my story was about survival. I was wrong. Survival was only the beginning. The truth is that millions of children, families, educators, churches, and communities are facing the same darkness that shaped my childhood. Predators continue to exploit the vulnerable. Institutions still place reputation above truth. Good people often remain silent because they are afraid, unprepared, or simply don't know what to do.

I know this because I have seen it from every side. I am survivor. I was a police officer and investigator. I was a human trafficking task force member. I have seen it as a school safety leader.

I have seen it in churches, schools, homes, and communities. The faces change. The locations change. The circumstances change.

The darkness does not.

That is why my mission is larger than a book, a speech, a training program, or an organization.

My mission is to help build a generation of protectors. People often ask why I continue to speak publicly about child abuse, exploitation, institutional failures, school safety, and the difficult realities that most people would rather avoid. The answer is simple. Because someone should have spoken for me. Someone should have recognized the warning signs. Someone should have asked the difficult questions.

Someone should have protected the child.

Too often, they did not.

Today, I have the opportunity to be the adult I needed when I was eleven years old.

That responsibility drives everything I do.

Through speaking, writing, training, private investigations, consulting, leadership development, and the Team Unconquerable movement, my goal is to equip ordinary people to do extraordinary things when it matters most. I want parents to recognize grooming behaviors before a child is harmed. I want educators to understand their responsibility as outcry witnesses. I want churches to create environments where abuse cannot hide. I want leaders to choose truth over reputation. I want men and women to develop the courage to confront evil rather than ignore it.

Most importantly, I want people to understand that protection is not someone else's responsibility. It belongs to all of us.

That is my mission. That is our mission. And that is why we fight.

OUR METHOD
My life's work can ultimately be summarized in three commitments.

Protect the Vulnerable.

Every child deserves a safe adult. Every victim deserves a voice. Every vulnerable person deserves someone willing to stand between them and harm.

Expose the Darkness.

Evil survives in secrecy. Predators depend on silence. Institutions fail when they choose reputation over truth. We must be willing to confront difficult realities and shine light into dark places.

Build Protectors.

The future will not be secured by spectators. It will be secured by prepared, courageous men and women who are willing to serve, lead, protect, and act when others cannot or will not.

I cannot change what happened to me.

But I can dedicate the rest of my life to ensuring fewer people have a story like mine to tell.

Today, I speak to schools, churches, law enforcement agencies, parents, educators, and community leaders across the country about child protection, institutional accountability, school safety, crisis leadership, faith, resilience, and the responsibility we all share to defend the vulnerable.

Together with my wife, Stephanie, I co-founded Team Unconquerable. Our mission is simple: to equip people to wage spiritual warfare, win physical battles, and live lives of courage, purpose, and service. Stephanie leads the spiritual development, discipleship, and wellness side of our mission. I lead the protection, preparedness, leadership, and warrior development efforts. Together, we are committed to helping others become unconquerable.

This mission extends beyond physical protection. Together with my wife Stephanie, we believe people must be equipped for both spiritual warfare and physical challenges. While I focus on protection, preparedness, leadership, and developing protectors, Stephanie leads the spiritual formation, discipleship, and faith development side of our mission. We believe lasting transformation happens when people are prepared to fight both the battles they can see and the battles they cannot. That belief became the foundation of Team Unconquerable.

We are building a movement dedicated to helping people live with courage, purpose, faith, resilience, and responsibility. We want to develop strong families, strong communities, strong leaders, and strong protectors. We want to help survivors find healing, equip leaders to lead with integrity, and challenge ordinary people to step forward when others step back.

Meet the man The New Yorker magazine dubbed "GOD'S COMIC".  In an 8-page article, The New Yorker magazine says that Brad’s “style is frantic, aggressive, and caustic, with echoes of Robin Williams, Sam Kinison, and George Carlin.”  His unique style, forged in the comedy clubs he performed in early in his career, features sarcasm, biting wit and intelligence.  With an energetic approach and no topics off-limits, he is the only comic that uses his Judeo/Christian worldview for social commentary and pointing out laughable faith-based everyday experiences.  This was unheard of 25 years ago in the Christian comedy genre, and still is to this day!

Dr. Kiran Dintyala is an internal medicine physician, practicing full time in San Diego, California. He is an author, speaker and stress-management expert. He holds a Master’s in Public Health (MPH), during which time he learnt his stress management skills. He is also a diplomate of American Board of Integrative and Holistic Medicine.

Every day he compassionately takes steps ‘to alleviate the suffering of his patients/clients and empower them to succeed in their lives through better usage of their own innate capabilities to be happy, peaceful, and content’.

His mission is to elevate the emotional well-being of the humanity, and thus increase the happiness index of the globe.

He strongly believes that with the simple principles and techniques he teaches, any one can become stress-free. He envisions and strives towards creating stress-free organizations, communities, and families across the United States and the rest of the world.

He believes a calm state of mind is essential for true success and happiness in life. He created the Stress Mastery Program and the P-E-T System for Stress-Free Living, to help people access ‘Calm in the Midst of Chaos.’ Some of the benefits of his teachings are:

1. Peaceful & joyful living
2. Work-life balance
3. Performance under pressure
4. Improved relationships at work & home
5. Relaxed & motivating work environment
6. Transforming organizational state of mind
7. Reduced absenteeism & presenteeism

A short version of my story

Many years ago, when I was in the spell of a perfect storm of stress in my life, I accidentally stumbled upon certain principles and techniques that saved my life. Those principles and techniques helped me calm down instantaneously and gave me the ability to take control of my life situation. That ability to calm down in the midst of chaos not only saved me from a dismal failure that threatened my career but also paved a path to the career of my dreams. The concepts I learnt over years through many life and death situations in my own life, I have put together as the P-E-T system for stress-free living. This easy to follow system melts away stress instantaneously. These principles and techniques work with mathematical accuracy!

Why am I doing this? Why did I choose this journey to create a stress-free revolution?

Having benefited from this system myself, now I am on a journey to help others because I know that stress is a relentless, silent killer. Having experienced extremes of stress in my own life, I

know how it feels to be in a situation that makes you feel desperate, hopeless, and miserable. When you are in deep distress you feel that nothing works for you. You feel as if everything is wrong in your life and there is no meaning to life. All the goals and dreams look futile. Yet, with experience I realized that no situation is hopeless and that there are obvious ways to emerge out of such situations successfully and find solutions to our problems. I am here to share what I know and be your guide to a peaceful, joyful, and productive living.

There is a need...a tremendous need to eliminate stress from our lives

Stress is recognized as a global epidemic by the United Nations. Stress management is corporate America’s greatest challenge in the 21stcentury. Families are falling apart because of stress. Individuals are losing focus in their lives and rapidly moving towards failure and depression. Yet, there is not enough preparedness to fight stress in our current society. There are obvious ways to overcome stress and live a peaceful and joyful life.

Start your stress-free journey today!

The P-E-T system I teach is simple but powerful. You will be amazed by its tremendous positive impact on you, both professionally and personally! You will find how to be happy at home and work. You fill find innovative ways to transform your organization and your family in a positive way. You don’t have to blindly agree with me. Experiment with this system. You will be pleasantly surprised!