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The ups, the downs, the surprises, the opportunities, the secrets and how to do it on your terms, gracefully or even disgracefully!
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The Friendship Famine: Why Men Are Starving for Real Connection
For most Australian men, male loneliness and the struggle to make real friends after 50 isn’t something they talk about. It isn’t even something many of them have named. It’s just a background hum — the sense that something is missing, that the mates they used to have have drifted away, that work was where their friendships lived and now that’s changing.
Tanya Koens: sex, intimacy and the midlife body
Sex and intimacy in midlife is one of the least-talked-about subjects in men’s health, and one of the most consequential. Desire shifts. Bodies change. Relationships drift. And most men have never been given the language, let alone the permission, to talk about any of it openly. Clinical and somatic sexologist Tanya Koens has spent nearly two decades in the room with people navigating exactly this territory. In this conversation, she brings warmth, science, and straight-talking insight to a subject that most men quietly wonder about but rarely discuss.
Professor James Elliott: (dis)Connected — when childhood trauma hides behind achievement
Childhood sexual abuse affects one in six men — and most carry that secret for decades. Professor James Elliott carried his for over 40 years. A former professional baseball player, world-leading pain researcher, Director of the Kolling Institute, and NASA consultant, James built a life of extraordinary achievement. But beneath it all, a boy was still running.
In this raw and courageous conversation, James opens up about trauma, disclosure, the long road to healing, and what it really means to become a man.
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