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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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Tanya Koens: sex, intimacy and the midlife body

Sex and intimacy in midlife is one of the least-talked-about subjects in men’s health, and one of the most consequential. Desire shifts. Bodies change. Relationships drift. And most men have never been given the language, let alone the permission, to talk about any of it openly. Clinical and somatic sexologist Tanya Koens has spent nearly two decades in the room with people navigating exactly this territory. In this conversation, she brings warmth, science, and straight-talking insight to a subject that most men quietly wonder about but rarely discuss.

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.

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Money and happiness: the power, illusion and purpose of wealth

Few questions cut as deeply into the fabric of human life as does money make us happy? Money is both tool and toxin, liberator and deceiver. To understand this paradox, we must ask not just what money can buy, but what it does—to us, for us, and within us. And maybe, just maybe, what money cannot buy. This article explores money as a network good, a cognitive drug, a revealer of values, and a moral test, and is based

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Too young to forget: Changing the story of early onset dementia in Australia

When Fraser, a 41year-old father and researcher from Sydney, realised he couldn’t remember watching a movie he had just seen, alarm bells should have rung.

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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,

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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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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.