Through stories, tools, and honest conversation, The Wisdom Vault unlocks what really matters.
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.
Dr Kat Page is an organisational psychologist and the author of Good Work: Transform Your Work from the Inside Out. She has spent two decades asking one question (what makes work good for us?) across mining sites, hospital wards, universities and boardrooms.
In this conversation, Pod and Kat talk about burnout as a systems problem rather than a personal failing, why burnout in midlife men so often looks like cynicism, what real recovery takes and what it means to give yourself permission to be human in a culture built around coping.
Mark Beretta spent 22 years as the sports presenter on Sunrise, Australia’s number one breakfast television show, before stepping away from the desk in December 2025. He is also a ten-time Australian water skiing champion, a Major in the Australian Army Reserve, a board member of the cycling charity Tour de Cure and, most recently, an ambassador for the Butterfly Foundation, where his focus is the rising rate of eating disorders and body image pressure among young men.
In this episode of Don’t Let The Old Man In, Mark sits down with Pod O’Sullivan to talk about reinvention, the year he lost his father and watched his mother’s cancer diagnosis unfold, and the small habit, learned from his dad, that has shaped every chapter of his working life.
Most men in midlife who feel like alcohol has more of a hold on them than it should are not addicts, and they know it. They just know something has shifted: the second glass most nights, weekends starting earlier than they used to, a low hum of guilt they cannot quite name.
This episode of Don’t Let The Old Man In sits down with Sarah Rusbatch, bestselling author of Beyond Booze and one of Australia’s leading voices on what she calls grey area drinking, to talk honestly about the space between a normal drinking habit and a real problem, and what it takes to change it.
All articles in The Wisdom Vault are organised under our 8 Pillars of Positive Aging, designed to help men navigating midlife transitions with clarity, purpose, and imagination.
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By Stephen Keys
