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Ian Westmoreland discovering purpose at age 59 and a half, and finding gold in the cracks!
Men’s mental health in midlife rarely gets talked about until something breaks. For Ian Westmoreland OAM, the turning point came on a Sydney train at 59 and a half, and it led him to walk away from a senior IT career and build two charities: Mentoring Men, which offers free life mentoring to men across Australia, and Kintsugi Heroes, which shares real stories of people overcoming adversity.
In this episode of Don’t Let The Old Man In, Ian talks about finding purpose after a corporate career, why men need to be heard rather than fixed, and what stage three melanoma taught him about gratitude, legacy and the meaning of success.
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.
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