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Don’t Let The Old Man In brings you real and candid conversations about your midlife years with some of the wisest experts in their field.

From taking charge of your health, to strengthening your relationships, and finding ways to reconnect with what lifts your spirit – this series is designed to make sure your second act is even better than the first.

Hosted by Pod O’Sullivan, whose lifelong fascination with transitions fuels each conversation, every episode will help you embrace these years and live a purposeful life (sore hips & all). Welcome.

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Latest Episodes

Understanding Shame and Midlife Transformation: Ben Larke

For midlife men, shame often lurks beneath the surface of our carefully constructed lives. We’ve built the career, bought the house, raised the kids. From the outside, everything looks sorted. But inside? There’s often a different story playing out—one we’ve been keeping secret, sometimes even from ourselves.

Ben Larke is a clinical psychologist who specialises in working with men navigating midlife transitions. He understands shame not just as a clinician, but as someone who’s done his own deep work.

Why successful men at midlife still feel like frauds: Erin Buttermore

You’ve climbed the ladder. Built the career. Earned the respect. So why does that voice in your head keep whispering you don’t deserve it? That any moment now, someone’s going to figure out you’ve been faking it all along?

In this conversation, we sit down with Erin Buttermore, a strategy consultant, executive coach and PhD candidate researching the imposter phenomenon at the University of Sydney.

Crossing the bridge: rethinking retirement with Dr Jon Glass

What if retirement isn’t really about golf and chilling out? What if it’s actually one of the most significant identity transitions you’ll ever face?

Dr Jon Glass knows this territory intimately. Starting his working life with a PhD in pure mathematics from Cambridge University, he’s made several major career transitions himself. Now, as a retirement coach, he’s on a mission to change the paradigm of what retirement actually means.

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Peoplehood

Engineering Longevity and Purpose

In the humid precision of Singapore, a nation where efficiency is culture and harmony is policy, something quietly revolutionary is happening. It isn’t another tech startup or smart city experiment. It’s human engineering at its most profound: a blueprint for thriving in the “third act” of life. At the centre of it all stands Professor Virginia Cha, academic director of the Distinguished Senior Fellowship Program (DSFP) at the National University of Singapore.

By Stephen Keys

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Last orders Down Under? Saving the Aussie pub

If you reckon pubs are just places to sink pints and watch the footy, you’d be missing the point entirely. In Australia, pubs, especially broad-based

Positivity

Mindfulness without the man bun: Why paying attention might just save your sanity

There’s a piece of work from the Anglo-Irish poet David Whyte that often gets a workout on social media: “Gratitude is not a passive response

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The new science of ageing and how we can earn more time

We like to imagine time as something fixed; an hourglass slowly emptying, grains of sand falling without pause or mercy. Dr Andrea Maier, one of

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