Velocity Check if Custom Object is Empty / Exists for Lead?

Hello!
Here with another probably basic question, but I am stuck on this.
We have an email that basically looks for data points within one custom object to "qualify" them for content and then looks at a second custom object to determine what content to show.

My issue is that there are cases where the second object does not exist / has no data for the Lead.
I tried doing something like this:

This is probably an inaccurate way to check as it results in showing the object as existing even on a Lead that clearly has no data in that object. I am assuming there's a better way to check for this?