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.
What if the restlessness, the irritability, and the quiet sense that something needs to change aren’t signs you’re falling apart—but signals worth listening to?
Dr Marny Lishman is a health and community psychologist, author of Crisis to Contentment, and one of Australia’s most sought-after voices on midlife wellbeing. She’s spent decades working with men who’ve walked into her clinic carrying the weight of burnout, disconnection, and a nagging sense of ‘is this it?’—and she’s helped them find a way through.
Most men arrive at 45 or 50 with the boxes ticked — career, family, mortgage — and still feel a quiet unease they can’t quite name.
Dan Foster, CEO of the Centre for Men and Families Australia, has spent over two decades sitting with men in exactly that place. Drawing on the work of Franciscan priest and author Richard Rohr, Dan guides men through what Rohr calls the second half of life: a descent from striving and achieving into something far more meaningful.
Most men in their 50s know they should be looking after themselves. They train, they eat reasonably well, they track their steps. And most of them are blind to the thing that will actually limit how well they age. Not disease. Not fitness. Their weak link.
Professor Scott Fulton has spent years studying what actually predicts functional health span for men — the ability to do what you want to do, for as long as possible, with independence intact. His conclusion challenges almost everything the fitness industry tells you. Being fit is not the same as being functionally resilient. And most men find out the difference far too late.
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
