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.
For 26 years, Tom Cronin was one of Sydney’s top money brokers, working a trading floor that ran on adrenaline, hedonism and very little sleep. He also spent those years having panic attacks in his car, in toilet cubicles, and at client lunches he could never fully explain leaving.
This episode of Don’t Let The Old Man In sits down with Tom, now a meditation teacher, author and founder of The Stillness Project, to talk about what actually happens when a high functioning man’s nervous system gives out, and what it takes to rebuild a life around stillness instead of chaos.
Most men become grandparents with no idea what the role actually requires. Melissa Richardson has spent nearly three decades teaching people how to mentor, first inside boardrooms as co-founder of Art of Mentoring, and now with grandparents in mind
Her book, Will Your Grandkids Be OK?, applies that same mentoring lens to family life, built around a framework she calls Roots and Wings: six things a child needs to feel grounded, and six skills they need to thrive in a world that looks nothing like the one we grew up in.
Dr Amantha Imber has spent two decades telling other people how to work better. In 2024, none of it saved her from burnout. The organisational psychologist behind Inventium and the podcast, How I Work, found herself fantasising about a week in hospital, not because she was sick, just so nobody could reach her.
In this conversation with Pod, Amantha talks honestly about what it took to step back into the CEO chair she’d once handed over, why “just pushing through” quietly stops working long before you notice, and the small, specific habits that got her energy back, from a two-minute splash of cold water to a phrase she calls “yes, but.
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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