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What if the Life You Built Isn't You Anymore? with Nick Shelton
What happens when the work stops, the job title is no longer relevant, and the role that defined you disappears?
In this episode, Nick Shelton tells the story so many midlife men silently live: achieving everything you thought you wanted… only to find yourself fading, drifting, or feeling strangely empty once the structure and purpose of working life falls away.
Nick retired young, thinking it would feel like freedom. Instead, it felt like slowly disappearing, like waking up one day and realising the man you were has nowhere to go and nothing to do.
This episode is about what happens next…
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