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How to Die Well: Oliver Christen on His Mother's Final Gift
Oliver Christen spent 24 days beside his mother as she chose exactly how she wanted to die. In her mid-80s and no longer able to live with the independence she valued, she decided to stop eating and drinking, a practice known as a death fast, and asked her son to walk the journey with her.
Oliver joins Don’t Let The Old Man In to talk about what those final weeks taught him: how his mother let go of her identity piece by piece, from her soap opera to her cross-country ski races, and how doing nothing became the hardest, most loving thing he could do.
Are you being trapped by your own capability?
Erin Buttermore knows the paradox better than anyone. The more capable you become, the more evidence you seem to find that you are about to be found out.
In her first appearance on Don’t Let The Old Man In, she reframed imposter feelings as the price we pay for growth, a line that stuck with many of you for months.
This time, Erin returns to explore what happens when that growth doesn’t stop.
Elite Coach Andrew May on why burnout is not the problem you think it is: but rebuilding capacity in midlife may well be
Andrew May has spent 20 years in the engine room of elite performance: mental skills and leadership coach to the Wallabies, the Manly Sea Eagles and world champion boxer Tim Tszyu, and the adviser several ASX chief executives call before anyone else.
In this episode of Don’t Let The Old Man In, he makes the case that most men have burnout backwards. It’s rarely a psychological collapse. More often, it’s a capacity problem: not enough recovery, not enough measurement, not enough honesty about what the body is telling you.
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