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There's a moment on every flight where you finally settle in — bag stowed, seatbelt clicked, headphones on — and you realize you've been holding your breath since the gate. This is for that moment.
Window Seat Collective sits at the intersection of three things that don't usually share a sentence: travel, peer-led mental health, and Black queer wellness. I built it because the people who need rest the most are usually the last to take it, and the systems built to help them are usually built for somebody else.
If you've been the friend group's therapist. The family fixer. The one who never gets to fall apart. The one who has read the books, paid for the therapy, and still feels behind on something you can't name — this is for you.
Travel doesn't heal you. You heal you. But the right window seat makes the cost of healing about 70% cheaper. And I'm going to write, build, and gather around that idea until somebody's life moves because of it. Hopefully yours.
Wellness should never be expensive. Not for the people who need it most.
Free bi-weekly newsletter. One essay every other Sunday — a city, a system, or a story from the build.
Subscribe →Reels and writing on healing through travel and peer-led care — real stories, not wellness-influencer polish.
Follow along →Speaking, consulting, life coaching, and the travel-as-healing concierge — for organizations and individuals.
See offerings →Most travel planning assumes a budget most people don't have. This doesn't. Tell me your city (or where you're pulled to), your dates, and what you can actually spend — and you'll get a curated plan built around real numbers, not aspirational ones.
Every request gets a first pass from an AI trained on the same principles behind Window Seat Collective, then a personal review from me before anything reaches you.
One-city guide, customized to you. 8–12 pages — neighborhoods, food, free/low-cost things to do, and what's real for Black and queer travelers specifically. Two business days after a short intake.
Order LiteMulti-city or multi-week, custom-built. A 60-minute planning call, a full document, and a mid-trip check-in call if the plan needs to bend. For the trip where the stakes feel real.
Book PlanWhite-glove. Full bespoke design, vetted on-the-ground partners, and on-call support while you travel. By application. Capped at four clients a year.
Apply for CuratedConferences, leadership offsites, podcasts. Travel as nervous-system repair, peer support as a leadership lever, building from lived experience.
Inquire by email →For nonprofits and emerging peer-led orgs designing engagement programs — drawn from a decade directing 24/7 outreach across NYC.
Inquire by email →One-on-one sessions grounded in the same peer-systems lens behind everything else here. By inquiry — tell me a bit about you first.
Inquire by email →I'm a Black gay man, NYC-based, and I spent the last decade leading peer-led mental health programs across all five boroughs — directing 24/7 outreach for people on assisted outpatient treatment, in re-entry from incarceration, on the street, or coming out of psychiatric hospitals. The kind of work that doesn't make it into wellness Instagram.
I started Window Seat Collective because I noticed something on a trip to Lisbon I couldn't unnotice: travel, when chosen well, does what most therapy can't, in a fraction of the time — and almost nobody tells Black queer people this on purpose. So I'm doing that on purpose.
The newsletter is the most direct line I have to the people building, healing, and traveling alongside me. Every other Sunday. Five-minute read. No roundups.