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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

Professor Virginia Cha: thriving beyond retirement in Singapore's engineered blue zone

What if the best educated, most experienced generation in history simply stopped contributing at 65? What if all that knowledge, those networks, that hard-won wisdom just… retired?

Training for Your Last Decade – with Dr. Gordon Spence

Healthy aging doesn’t begin at 70; it starts right now. In this inspiring episode of Don’t Let The Old Man In, Dr Gordon Spence shares how midlife can become the launchpad for a stronger, healthier, more connected future.

Just One Reason: Stuart O’Neill on Survival, Hope and the Power of Connection

When life falls apart, most of us search for a way through. For Stuart O’Neill, that search began in the darkest moment of his life — a moment that nearly ended it. What emerged instead was Just One Reason, a small, unassuming book that has since saved lives across the world.

Weight Loss Drugs: Miracle or Mistake?

Midlife often brings unwelcome surprises: slower metabolism, creeping weight gain, and the frustration that “what worked before” suddenly doesn’t. Dr. Kwong helps us understand why—and shows how to think beyond quick fixes toward sustainable, holistic health.

How to master the Life Reinvention Playbook with Michael Bungay Stanier

Michael shares with us his experiences of undertaking personal reinvention(s), surfing the journey of long-term relationships, managing conflict as we get older and why Dads need to stop giving advice to teenage children.

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Listen to host Pod O’Sullivan share what this podcast is about, who it is for, who will be interviewed, what to expect, and why Clint Eastwood is such a legend!

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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.

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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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