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Why identity change and burnout looks different in men: Dr Kat Page on good work
Dr Kat Page is an organisational psychologist and the author of Good Work: Transform Your Work from the Inside Out. She has spent two decades asking one question (what makes work good for us?) across mining sites, hospital wards, universities and boardrooms.
In this conversation, Pod and Kat talk about burnout as a systems problem rather than a personal failing, why burnout in midlife men so often looks like cynicism, what real recovery takes and what it means to give yourself permission to be human in a culture built around coping.
Twenty-two years on breakfast television taught Mark Beretta countless life lessons. Here is what he shared with me.
Mark Beretta spent 22 years as the sports presenter on Sunrise, Australia’s number one breakfast television show, before stepping away from the desk in December 2025. He is also a ten-time Australian water skiing champion, a Major in the Australian Army Reserve, a board member of the cycling charity Tour de Cure and, most recently, an ambassador for the Butterfly Foundation, where his focus is the rising rate of eating disorders and body image pressure among young men.
In this episode of Don’t Let The Old Man In, Mark sits down with Pod O’Sullivan to talk about reinvention, the year he lost his father and watched his mother’s cancer diagnosis unfold, and the small habit, learned from his dad, that has shaped every chapter of his working life.
Are you in the ‘Grey area’ when it comes to drinking? Here is how you know if alcohol still works for you
Most men in midlife who feel like alcohol has more of a hold on them than it should are not addicts, and they know it. They just know something has shifted: the second glass most nights, weekends starting earlier than they used to, a low hum of guilt they cannot quite name.
This episode of Don’t Let The Old Man In sits down with Sarah Rusbatch, bestselling author of Beyond Booze and one of Australia’s leading voices on what she calls grey area drinking, to talk honestly about the space between a normal drinking habit and a real problem, and what it takes to change it.
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