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From the corner office to community: Stephen Keys on purpose, philanthropy and the second half of life
What happens when a man at the top of his game walks away from it all — not because he failed, but because something deeper was calling? Stephen Keys knows that moment well. After a 25-year career in global IT, including a decade as a senior executive and group CEO, Stephen made the kind of decision most men quietly dream about: he chose purpose over prestige.
What followed wasn’t a straight line. There was divorce, loneliness, weekends without his boys, and the slow, humbling work of rebuilding. But there was also a charity transforming lives in rural Sri Lanka, unexpected lifelines found in volunteering, ultra marathons run on the mantra “my pain is my privilege,” and a growing conviction that the second half of life can be more meaningful than the first.
This is a conversation about what it really costs to choose significance — and what it quietly gives back.
Craig Williams: From Royal Marine sniper to prison — and back. Resilience, reinvention and running
What does it take to rebuild your life from the ground up? For Craig Williams, a former Royal Marine sniper with 15 years of elite military service, the answer involved surviving combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, serving time in prison, and discovering — in a prison yard, running laps in flip flops — that movement could be medicine. His story is one of the most extraordinary we’ve featured on Don’t Let The Old Man In, and it speaks directly to something many men in midlife know all too well: the weight of a past mistake, and the question of whether reinvention is really possible.
Tim Hewson: Why Men Need Mates More Than Advice
For many men in midlife, the question isn’t just about surviving the pressures of work and family — it’s about whether there’s something more. Tim Hewson knows that territory better than most. After 27 years in high-pressure banking and finance, navigating panic attacks in corporate bathrooms, a marriage breakdown, and the slow unravelling of everything he thought defined him, Tim didn’t just rebuild. He created something remarkable: a movement that is changing the way Australian men think about mental health, community, and what it means to be a bloke.
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