Less stress and obligations weighing over your head = Having the energy to be social and check in on the people you love. Stop regimenting everything in your schedule and start carving out time to do nothing -- and don't feel bad about it. If you can't do it for yourself, at least do it for the people you love.

A mental health conversation about the absurd things men do to avoid talking about their feelings.

Filmed in April 2025

Hey guys, it’s been a while! As some of you may know, No Empty Seats started back in 2021 off the basis of sharing stories and lessons learned on mental health. Every week, I used to post graphics and anecdotes of my own experiences and conversations I’ve shared in the mental health work. And unfortunately through tons of different life stressors, I haven’t been able to regularly talk about mental health like I used to.

In fact even still running NES, a whole ass mental health nonprofit, lately I actually have felt the STIGMA around mental health, and felt suppressed to talk about my emotions and embarrassed to advocate for someones mental health in public conversation.

Recently I realized I needed to get back out there: Share my story, do the work I used to love doing, and most importantly be there for myself and the poeple I love.

These weekly episodes are going to be digestible, 10-15 minute, casual anecdotes of everything I’ve learned on my journey with mental health. Super chill lessons I’ve learned and would love to spread with you, just like the Instagram posts I used to do. Been wanting to get off of social media and do longer form for a while. I want to get out of my comfort zone and get back to sharing my thoughts through this public journal. You can count on me to post these every Fridays. Take care of yourself this weekend and rememebr that someone is doing better because of you 💜

Boys Episode!!!

Super honored to have some of my closest friends, Mac and Daniel on the podcast for a zoom interview about “Having the Hard Conversations Behind Mental Health”. Whether it be speaking up and asking for help, asking a friend if they’re struggling, or just simply bringing up a difficult conversation you need to have with a friend, mentor, or family member, hard conversations are hard. And we hope your listening helps you realize you are strong enough to speak up. 

Podcast 6 is out on all platforms, check it out! We talk about all the negative side effects of social media and phone usage, such as overstimulation, instant gratification, early exposure to trauma and maturity(knowing too much), and brain rot.


I also discuss other updates to the NES team such as our latest pitches and college ambassdaors! Check out the 30 minutes of me shooting the shit while you’re on the road and I hopefully you learn something from it <3

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In this week’s episode, I give live no edits a try. It was hard but I think it’ll force me to be more authentic and speak from the heart more. I talked about growing up, the angst behind it, and Lowkey how crazy it is for us to think so ahead! Overthinking is a killer and I was proposing how we shouldn’t be romanticizing this grindset so much. 

This was filmed a couple of months ago, don't worry about the Walk but it went great! We raised $4,000 as the first ever AFSP Out of the Darkness Walk at Brown University!