Mid-life Men

About Mid-life Men

Have you ever felt like you’ve become lost in your own life? Many men struggle to talk about their problems and mental health and grew up believing that to do can be perceived as a sign of weakness or failure. There is also a lack of open discussion in society around men’s mental health, especially aimed at mid-life men. As a result, at times many men can feel alone and lost in their own lives. In this podcast series, I talk to mid-life men about their stories; the challenges, the turning points, and the support received to help them find their way so that others who may be suffering in silence or don’t know what to do next, realise that they are not alone and there is help available. Stories will cover a whole range of challenges faced by mid-life men mainly relating to the causes of mental health issues including feelings of isolation, depression, job dissatisfaction, addiction, PTSD, and long-term illness. The podcast is NOT a replacement for professional support and we signpost to organisations and their contact details by episode. If you have a story you would like to share or any feedback on the podcasts, please email me: midlifemen01@gmail.com.

Publisher

Philip Briscoe

Category

health & fitness · health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Feb 2023

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 114 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026

   Christian O’Connell: Are You Tired of Pretending?

   You may know Christian O’Connell’s voice from the Absolute Radio in the UK or his eponymous breakfast show in Australia, but this conversation is about something many men find much harder than talking: admitting they’re struggling. The award-winning broadcaster and author joins me for an honest, insightful and often funny conversation about the pressures of midlife, feeling trapped by the person everyone expects you to be, and finding a way back to yourself. Christian describes th...

2. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Retirement: Who Am I Without My Work? with Chris Maduri

   You might know when you want to retire. But what do you want your life to look like when you do? Long mornings, no commute, nobody telling you what to do. It sounds appealing. Yet work gives us more than we sometimes realise: people to talk to, a reason to get up, a sense of achievement and an answer to the question, “What do you do?” So what happens when all that changes? Chris Maduri joins me to explore the side of retirement we can easily overlook while counting down to our last day. We ta...

3. 

   24 Sept 2026

   How Do You Live With the Childhood You Survived? with Chaz Holesworth

   Chaz Holesworth grew up in Kensington, Philadelphia, a neighbourhood gutted by poverty and an opioid crisis that hasn't let up since the 1980s. His father was a heroin addict for over 20 years. His mother, overwhelmed and unsupported, pulled the family into a fundamentalist born-again church that cut them off from the outside world, banned music and movies, and taught Chaz from age four that he was one sinful thought away from hell. In this episode, Chaz talks about what it was like gro...

Inside a recent episode

Hard Choices, Easy Life, with Jerzy Gregorek

Published 2 Feb 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] To really understand the, the compound interest, I didn't understand the compound interest at that time, but education is something like that, when we read more, when we go to school, the school provides this whole system of challenges, hard choices, that we have to go through from class to class, and that builds us and changes us and, and creates a person that eventually graduates from one high school, then you go to university, then you do PhD, whatever it is, but it's a system that provides compound interest. In life, in athletics, that compound interest is delivered by coaches, coaches know when they want to go, they know numbers, they, you have to improve, you just cannot be the same. […]

Who has been a guest on Mid-life Men

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Mike Flynn
• Kenny Mammarella-D-Cruz
• Waldemar Franco
• Josh Fineman
• Adam Smith

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

693

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.3 / 5

11 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 40 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

41

Social presence

0

YouTube

64

Engagement

32

Contact Mid-life Men

Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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