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Will your grandkids be okay? A mentoring expert on the grandparent role no one prepares you for

Most men become grandparents with no idea what the role actually requires. Melissa Richardson has spent nearly three decades teaching people how to mentor, first inside boardrooms as co-founder of Art of Mentoring, and now with grandparents in mind

Her book, Will Your Grandkids Be OK?, applies that same mentoring lens to family life, built around a framework she calls Roots and Wings: six things a child needs to feel grounded, and six skills they need to thrive in a world that looks nothing like the one we grew up in.

The energy game: how a burnt-out psychologist rebuilt her vitality one small experiment at a time

Dr Amantha Imber has spent two decades telling other people how to work better. In 2024, none of it saved her from burnout. The organisational psychologist behind Inventium and the podcast, How I Work, found herself fantasising about a week in hospital, not because she was sick, just so nobody could reach her.

In this conversation with Pod, Amantha talks honestly about what it took to step back into the CEO chair she’d once handed over, why “just pushing through” quietly stops working long before you notice, and the small, specific habits that got her energy back, from a two-minute splash of cold water to a phrase she calls “yes, but.

Eat more, not less: the dietitian rewriting the rules on weight loss for midlife men

At thirty-two, Dr Jessica Turton ended up on the cover of a national magazine with a message most people had never heard: eat more, not less.

In this conversation, she explains why the “eat less, move more” advice most of us grew up with fails so often, what insulin resistance is quietly doing to men in midlife, and how eating more of the right foods, not less of everything, can turn it around.

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