DON'T LET THE OLD MAN IN
DLTOMI is a podcast brought to you by Pod O’Sullivan, where he has real and candid conversations with experts, celebrities and ordinary men about navigating midlife. The ups, the downs, the surprises, the opportunities, the secrets and how to do it on your terms, gracefully or even disgracefully!
Pod will explore ways to take charge of your health, to divorce well, to reinvigorate your sex life, to find ways to lift your spirit, to join new communities, to make sure you have enough money for retirement, to laugh, to cry if needed, to change perspectives, and most importantly, to ensure your second act is even better than the first.
Pod O’Sullivan has been fascinated with transitions and personal reinventions for most of his life. His career has seen him in the medical industry, in sales and marketing, consulting industries, being self-employed, being an entrepreneur who successfully sold businesses, being an educator at Sydney Business School, an author, an Executive Coach to 100’s of CEO’s all over Asia, a podcaster, the owner of a failed tech start up and now the co-founder of The Wisdom Vault and host of this podcast.
Migrating from Ireland and England to Australia taught him many lessons. Divorcing with two young kids threw a few more his way. Remarrying and creating the ‘Brady Bunch’ with Carole, his two children and three new daughters, topped off many great life lessons. Pod knows the harsh reality of life’s ups and downs and firmly believes that mid-life, whilst tough on many levels, lonely on other levels and downright confusing on even others, can also include the best stages in life. He is here to explore and find those!
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Keen but Clueless: What Men Really Need to Know About Their Partner's Menopause
Most men whose partners are going through menopause describe the same experience: keen and caring, but clueless and helpless. Thea O’Connor has spent years interviewing men about exactly this — and delivers the only workshops in Australia specifically designed to help men understand what’s happening and what to do about it.
In this episode she covers the basics most men have never been given, why a man’s attitude scientifically affects how severe his partner’s symptoms are, and what Orca whales have to do with any of it.
The Most Important Relationship You're Ignoring: Kerri Sackville on Learning to Be Alone
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.
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