Jun 26, 2026 · 9 min · 7 segments
This week on Don't Let the Old Man In, we sat down with Dan Foster, CEO of The Centre For Men and Families, to unpack the problems men are facing in the transition to midlife and why so many men feel…
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Do you ever find yourself asking the question, is this it? Is this all there is for the effort that I've put in? I've ticked all the boxes, got a good career, raise my kids, pay down the mortgage.

And now I'm sitting quietly at the kitchen bench at seven in the morning, my coffee's gone cold, and I'm asking myself a question, is this
actually it?

Today, I'm going to give you three things that you can do to tackle this question and why they actually will work.
project.
Whatever we don't transform, we transmit.

We're drawn from the work of Dan Foster at the Centre for Men and Families and from the writings of Richard Rohr.
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Do you ever find yourself asking the question, is this it? Is this all there is for the effort that I've put in? I've ticked all the boxes, got a good career, raise my kids, pay down the mortgage.

And now I'm sitting quietly at the kitchen bench at seven in the morning, my coffee's gone cold, and I'm asking myself a question, is this
actually it?

Today, I'm going to give you three things that you can do to tackle this question and why they actually will work.
project.
Whatever we don't transform, we transmit.

We're drawn from the work of Dan Foster at the Centre for Men and Families and from the writings of Richard Rohr.