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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.

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.