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Buoys Club started in September 2024 with 26 men’s work leaders in a room in NYC. We had a bet: the people doing this work needed to be less alone in it. Our Spring convening was our 8th gathering. 700+ people have engaged with Buoys Club events since — 80% men — spanning healthcare, philanthropy, media, academia, business, tech, and government. Now there’s an ecosystem. A real one. 🌱 We recently mapped the US Men’s Work Ecosystem to make this invisible work visible. The biggest signal from the room: the people building the most impactful things for men’s wellbeing all started the same way. Self-started. No permission. No funding. Just one person texting a few guys and picking a date. The initial strike of the match beats the algorithm every time. 🔥 🔗 Full reflections + our US Men’s Work Ecosystem map at the link in bio. — #MensWellbeing #MensMentalHealth #MensWork #HealthyMasculinity #BuoysClub AntennaUp CommunityBuilding MensHealth MentalHealthAwareness MensMentalHealthMatters Brotherhood MensCircle MensGroup Wellbeing SocialImpact

The highest performers are often the last ones to ask for help. At our Healthier Men at Work Summit, @zwclark of @releaserecovery put it plainly: You can build something incredible and still be one bad day away from breaking. If the person running the room won’t ask for help, nobody will. We all know that culture starts at the top — so does the silence. 🎥 Watch the full panel on Antenna Up’s YouTube channel via the link in bio.

Brava to Laura Correnti, Nikita Malhotra and everyone else involved in bringing the 4th annual @deepbluesportsent Business of Women’s Sports Summit to life. It gets richer and more inspiring every year! The investors, brand partners, and builders in the room are done waiting for legacy leaders to catch up. The energy in the room all day was buzzy and generative. Investment dollars are flowing. Valuations are climbing. Storytelling is finally getting more of the depth, attention, and investment it deserves (@iheartmediaofficial Women’s Sports). The WNBA draft is pulling 3M+ viewers. Women’s sports is no longer a moment. It’s a rocket ship, and an industry ecosystem is being built around it. And yet, you know the conversation I kept having in the margins all day: until more men with power and influence see themselves as stakeholders in this (the flourishing of women’s sports and women’s health), not just allies cheering from the sidelines, we’re leaving many forms of capital and momentum on the table, and many frustrating barriers will remain. The brands, the media companies, the workplaces that figure out how to move beyond zero-sum thinking and bring all genders meaningfully into these conversations, will unlock power the rest of the market is sleeping on. That’s why @antenna_up runs @healthiermen_us , @marketingtomen and more to engage men who understand the math, see the potential for women’s sports, women’s health, and youth sports participation to lift all boats, and are ready to lead with accountability. Learn more about our work:

We tend to blame men for not engaging, but what if instead, we looked at the design of those programs?” proposed Jason Rosario of @thelivesofmen as he framed our panel titled “An Engagement Audit: Benefits & Culture for Today’s Workers” at Antenna Up’s Healthier Men At Work 2026. In this conversation, we learned that forward-thinking HR, talent, and recruiting leaders are closing the gap in men’s engagement with health and wellness benefits. Not always by adding more programs, but by changing the design and the language entirely. Daisy Auger-Domínguez, Head of People & Workplaces, Digital Asset urged HR leaders to reframe wellness and mental health benefits as capability-building, rather than some sort of confession. “If they feel they have to confess to a frailty or something perceived as negative, they’re not going to touch it. If you frame it as something that’s going to give them a competitive edge, it hits differently.” Emani Fenton of Russell Reynolds Associates shared ways to tell healthy, authentic, and respected leaders from people who call themselves leaders. He introduced us to the concept of “followership” as the real leadership metric they use to assess a CEO’s ability to create a healthy culture. “Do the strongest people in your organization want to help you be successful? We all know the bosses whom you’d pick up the phone for — and follow them anywhere. And we know the bosses whom you’d send to voicemail and call back a few weeks from now.” Sean Harvey, MSOD, MSEd, Founder, WCI Advisory Group called on business leaders to provide overt invitations and permission. “When we can give the right invitation that guys can hear and the permission to be vulnerable without always calling it vulnerability — that’s the opening.” Watch the full panel at the link in bio. 🎥

The food sets the tone. Your guests walk away with the experience. I had the honor of supporting @antenna_up 's inaugural Healthier Men At Work summit — bringing together over 100 leaders, storytellers, and changemakers in NYC for an honest conversation about wellness, work, and what it means to show up fully. From an intimate VIP lunch to continuous service throughout the day, my role was to support the rhythm of the room. As a chef, I think beyond the plate. I think about how people feel in the space. How the experience flows. How nourishment supports the energy of the room. Moments like these aren't just events — they're environments that shape connection, clarity, and conversation. Grateful to have contributed to this one. More rooms like this. Chef Janelle 🌺 📸: @garrygpro

Louis Theroux went inside the manosphere and @luchinafisher explores fatherhood with six dads as they gather for a fishing trip in “The Dads.” Our latest Buoys Club newsletter boosts signals from the ensuing discourse via the link in our bio. Buoys Club is a community for people working to uplift the well-being of men and boys. Our next gathering is April 28th — come be a part of the change with us. Registration link in our bio.

Last month, over 100 business leaders and changemakers gathered in NYC — a 90% attendance rate on a cold Friday afternoon — for @antenna_up inaugural “Healthier Men At Work” summit: a first-of-its-kind convening on how male worker health is tied to business outcomes. Companies are already paying for men’s disengagement, burnout, and silence — they just aren’t naming it yet. Every conversation in that room made clear: this is a business and cultural issue with real costs, and leaders are hungry for credible spaces to address it. From mental health and fatherhood to caregiving, leadership, and what workplace benefits fail to deliver— the conversations were raw, strategic, and unlike anything most attendees had experienced at a professional event. @AARP ’s CIO Najeeb Uddin called recognizing the whole person at work “not a ‘nice to have’ — but a strategic imperative.” We will be posting a series of takeaways from each of our panels! In the meantime: @healthiermen_us US bio links: 📺 Antenna Up YouTube for 1-min sizzle and all panel videos 📘 Healthier Men At Work Highlights presentation Thank you to everyone who made this real — from our venue partner Maison Projects to lunch sponsor AARP, livestream viewers who joined from across the country, MCs @bbarthur and @robin.gelfenbien , and every speaker and participant who brought their full selves to the room. @brooksescott @chriswilsonslife , The Master Plan @iamcpalma , OFF THE CUFF @daisyaugerdominguez , Digital Asset Derrick Thomas @dt_32 , JPMC Dreema Stokes, @movember.usa Emani Fenton, Russell Reynolds Geraldine White @_aspire2gr8ness Identity + Impact Giovanna Gray Lockhart Isaac Slone, @backline.care @jason__rosario , Lives of Men Jay Coen Gilbert, B Labs, WMRJ @kevinhinesstory Michael Munoz @mooney4279 @michaelventura @sullivanpaulj , Company of Dads Sami Hassanyeh, AARP @seanharvey_wci Shawn Lesser, The REAL Tarah Malhotra-Feinberg, Soulprint @ted.bunch , A CALL TO MEN @usamayoung_ontherun , NY Giants @zwclark @zachjgottlieb Let’s partner in sending new signals about the health, wellbeing, and brave new leadership of men at work — and improving how all of us work better together 📡

Hot off the press 🎥 sizzle of @antenna_up @healthiermen_us last month! Let’s build 💪 🙌🕺🪩💃

Join us in-room or on the livestream for @antenna_up ’s Healthier Men At Work summit TOMORROW. Urgent topics and world class speakers, what could be better? @healthiermen_us link in bio!

One of the most avoided conversations in leadership is also one of the most consequential. At Healthier Men At Work this Friday, our opening conversation of the day is The “He-cession”: And Why No One Wants to Talk About It, where we’ll confront the data behind men’s declining engagement, health, and connection at work—and why so many institutions still struggle to name it without fear or backlash. We’ll pair macro research with lived experiences, exploring what leaders risk by staying silent, and how this can be addressed *without* zero-sum framing or moral panic. Featuring: Geraldine White, CEO, IDENTITY & IMPACT (moderator) Brian P. Heilman, Senior Research Fellow, Movember Ted Bunch, Chief Development Officer, A Call to Men Shawn Lesser, Founder, THE REAL Mental Health Foundation Join us Friday February 6th | NYC + Livestream /255p609m

This friday! Join @antenna_up and a 🔥 cross-sector lineup of global leaders for the first corporate summit connecting men’s mental health to business outcomes. Friday February 6th NYC🗽 and livestream 💻

See you at Healthier Men At Work on February 6th in New York City and on livestream! Link in bio 👆