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 happens when a comedian, radio star, SAS Australia survivor, and wine entrepreneur walks into a midlife conversation? You get one of the most honest, self-aware, and unexpectedly profound exchanges we’ve had on Don’t Let The Old Man In. Merrick Watts — one of Australia’s most versatile entertainers — has lived more identities than most men dare to imagine, and at 52 he’s more purposeful, more grounded, and more clear-eyed about what actually matters than at any other point in his career. This is a conversation about midlife reinvention, identity, legacy, and what it really means to grow up.
Naomi Cao sits in a space that doesn’t exist anywhere else. She’s not a therapist and she’s not a lawyer. She’s a divorce coach and strategist — a project manager for the most difficult season of a man’s life. She’s also the evidence that starting over after divorce isn’t just possible. It’s survivable. And sometimes, it’s the making of you.
What if midlife career change wasn’t a detour — but the most deliberate design decision you ever made? Author and coach Peter Reek sold a successful business in his fifties, returned to university to study Applied Positive Psychology, and wrote SHIFT: 7 Mindsets for an Inspired Midlife. In this conversation, Pod goes beyond the framework and into the territory no other interviewer has reached — the real cost of starting over, the lyrical voice Peter kept hidden through a business career, and what radical acceptance actually looks like when it still stings.
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
