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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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Eat more, not less: the dietitian rewriting the rules on weight loss for midlife men
At thirty-two, Dr Jessica Turton ended up on the cover of a national magazine with a message most people had never heard: eat more, not less.
In this conversation, she explains why the “eat less, move more” advice most of us grew up with fails so often, what insulin resistance is quietly doing to men in midlife, and how eating more of the right foods, not less of everything, can turn it around.
How to design your second career at midlife
What does a genuine midlife career change look like when it comes not from crisis, but from a clear-eyed decision to stop trading time for the wrong outcomes? In this episode of Don’t Let The Old Man In, host Pod O’Sullivan sits down with two executive coaches — Allan Tillack and Andy Sheats — who each walked away from the top of significant corporate careers to design lives built around purpose, adventure, and the kind of leadership that actually lights them up.
Their stories speak directly to the men in our audience navigating their own career reinvention at 50, wrestling with questions of identity, executive coaching, and what midlife reinvention really costs — and delivers.
How to move from Crisis to contentment: by the psychologist who studies midlife men
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.
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