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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 James Elliott: (dis)Connected — when childhood trauma hides behind achievement

Childhood sexual abuse affects one in six men — and most carry that secret for decades. Professor James Elliott carried his for over 40 years. A former professional baseball player, world-leading pain researcher, Director of the Kolling Institute, and NASA consultant, James built a life of extraordinary achievement. But beneath it all, a boy was still running.

In this raw and courageous conversation, James opens up about trauma, disclosure, the long road to healing, and what it really means to become a man.

Dr. Jenifer Luman: Your blood test says you're fine. Your body disagrees.

Most men who end up in an ambulance felt fine. Right up until they didn’t.

Here’s the thing about a heart attack, a stroke, a diabetes diagnosis — none of them start the day they happen. They start quietly, ten to twenty years earlier. In perfectly normal-looking blood test results. In a body that feels okay. In a life that looks fine from the outside.

Pasco Ashton: Men's circles, male loneliness, and why real courage is honesty

What does it really mean to be a man in midlife? For many men in their 40s, 50s, and beyond, the loneliness epidemic hits hardest precisely when it should feel easiest — when careers are established, children are raised, and the world looks, from the outside at least, like it’s going well.

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The sandwich generation 2.0: Sustaining three generations without losing yourself

You raised your kids. They’ve finished school, maybe even uni. They’re ambitious twenty-somethings. Some of your music tastes have rubbed off on them, and yes, that does make you feel a little smug. They’re working hard, chipping away at student debt, and trying to break into a housing market that makes The Hunger Games look like a stroll in the park. Oh and they’re still occupying a bedroom in the family home.

By Stephen Keys

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The lucky country … for whom, exactly?

Once upon a time in Australia (say, 1994), a Gen X bloke could leave school, land a bank job, buy a modest fibro in the

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The after work pint is dying. Should we mourn it?

A recent post on LinkedIn about skipping after-work drinks caught my eye. Nothing dramatic, just one person’s choice not to attend the usual pub gathering. But

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Reflections on an 80-year study into what makes us human

In 1938, as the world teetered on the edge of war, researchers at Harvard University began a study that would become one of the longest

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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.