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Peter Reek: SHIFT — 7 mindsets for men who refuse to drift through midlife
What if midlife career change wasn’t a detour — but the most deliberate design decision you ever made? Author and coach Peter Reek sold a successful business in his fifties, returned to university to study Applied Positive Psychology, and wrote SHIFT: 7 Mindsets for an Inspired Midlife. In this conversation, Pod goes beyond the framework and into the territory no other interviewer has reached — the real cost of starting over, the lyrical voice Peter kept hidden through a business career, and what radical acceptance actually looks like when it still stings.
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.
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