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How to design your second career at midlife
What does a genuine midlife career change look like when it comes not from crisis, but from a clear-eyed decision to stop trading time for the wrong outcomes? In this episode of Don’t Let The Old Man In, host Pod O’Sullivan sits down with two executive coaches — Allan Tillack and Andy Sheats — who each walked away from the top of significant corporate careers to design lives built around purpose, adventure, and the kind of leadership that actually lights them up.
Their stories speak directly to the men in our audience navigating their own career reinvention at 50, wrestling with questions of identity, executive coaching, and what midlife reinvention really costs — and delivers.
How to move from Crisis to contentment: by the psychologist who studies midlife men
What if the restlessness, the irritability, and the quiet sense that something needs to change aren’t signs you’re falling apart—but signals worth listening to?
Dr Marny Lishman is a health and community psychologist, author of Crisis to Contentment, and one of Australia’s most sought-after voices on midlife wellbeing. She’s spent decades working with men who’ve walked into her clinic carrying the weight of burnout, disconnection, and a nagging sense of ‘is this it?’—and she’s helped them find a way through.
Rites of passage for men, midlife transition, and the quiet work of becoming
Most men arrive at 45 or 50 with the boxes ticked — career, family, mortgage — and still feel a quiet unease they can’t quite name.
Dan Foster, CEO of the Centre for Men and Families Australia, has spent over two decades sitting with men in exactly that place. Drawing on the work of Franciscan priest and author Richard Rohr, Dan guides men through what Rohr calls the second half of life: a descent from striving and achieving into something far more meaningful.
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