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.
Most men who find themselves single in midlife do the same thing. They start dating too soon, from a position of loneliness rather than strength, and they have no idea that’s what they’re doing.
Kerri Sackville knows this because she spent eight and a half years on the midlife dating scene after a 17-year marriage ended, wrote a book about what she found, and then wrote another book about the thing that turned out to matter more than any of it: learning to be alone.
The language most men use for midlife is wrong. Crisis. Decline. Slow fade. The vocabulary is built around loss — of sharpness, of drive, of relevance. What if that vocabulary is keeping men from seeing what’s actually happening?
Aneace Haddad sold his payment software company across 30 countries at 47, moved from France to Singapore, and started over. Not because he had to. Because something in him had shifted and the old map no longer made sense. What followed was a decade of working out what second adulthood actually is — not what culture says it should be, but what it biologically, neurologically, and psychologically becomes when you stop fighting it.
For most Australian men, male loneliness and the struggle to make real friends after 50 isn’t something they talk about. It isn’t even something many of them have named. It’s just a background hum — the sense that something is missing, that the mates they used to have have drifted away, that work was where their friendships lived and now that’s changing.
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
