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From breakdown to stillness: the Sydney broker who now teaches men to meditate
For 26 years, Tom Cronin was one of Sydney’s top money brokers, working a trading floor that ran on adrenaline, hedonism and very little sleep. He also spent those years having panic attacks in his car, in toilet cubicles, and at client lunches he could never fully explain leaving.
This episode of Don’t Let The Old Man In sits down with Tom, now a meditation teacher, author and founder of The Stillness Project, to talk about what actually happens when a high functioning man’s nervous system gives out, and what it takes to rebuild a life around stillness instead of chaos.
Will your grandkids be okay? A mentoring expert on the grandparent role no one prepares you for
Most men become grandparents with no idea what the role actually requires. Melissa Richardson has spent nearly three decades teaching people how to mentor, first inside boardrooms as co-founder of Art of Mentoring, and now with grandparents in mind
Her book, Will Your Grandkids Be OK?, applies that same mentoring lens to family life, built around a framework she calls Roots and Wings: six things a child needs to feel grounded, and six skills they need to thrive in a world that looks nothing like the one we grew up in.
The energy game: how a burnt-out psychologist rebuilt her vitality one small experiment at a time
Dr Amantha Imber has spent two decades telling other people how to work better. In 2024, none of it saved her from burnout. The organisational psychologist behind Inventium and the podcast, How I Work, found herself fantasising about a week in hospital, not because she was sick, just so nobody could reach her.
In this conversation with Pod, Amantha talks honestly about what it took to step back into the CEO chair she’d once handed over, why “just pushing through” quietly stops working long before you notice, and the small, specific habits that got her energy back, from a two-minute splash of cold water to a phrase she calls “yes, but.
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