Getting older, and what changes

11 stories.

Connecting Seniors

Dancing amongst life's chaos and adventures with Robyn Catchlove

Robyn Catchlove's life — from top-secret weapons research to a decade of professional fishing in crocodile country, from a chance letter to the Dalai Lama to becoming Katoomba's official witty public nuisance — is a masterclass in what it looks like to live with radical curiosity, hard-won compassion, and unstoppable resilience.

Connecting Seniors

A Journey through Generational Trauma to Advocate for Mental Health with with Walter Frankel

Walter Frankel chose his values over his marriage and found purpose serving isolated older Australians.

Kintsugi Heroes

Kindness at the End: Harpreet Kalsi-Smith on Dying Well & Community

When her mother died, Harpreet Kalsi-Smith didn't retreat from grief — she built an entire organisation to ensure no one, especially those from First Nations, migrant, and refugee communities, has to face the end of life without dignity, culture, and kindness.

Connecting Seniors

Finishing Well: From Corporate Success to Giving Back

At 70, Ian Westmoreland left corporate success behind to build spaces where ordinary Australians' stories are heard with dignity.

Animals & Us

The School of the Wolves: What Broken Animals Teach Us About Healing

A psychologist discovers that rescued wolves teach traumatized young people to reclaim their voice and occupy space without apology.

Kintsugi Heroes

How Connection and Hope Shape Mental Wellbeing at Every Age with Ros Knight

A clinical psychologist with 35 years of frontline experience reveals why connection, exercise, and hope are not soft ideals but the hard science of surviving and thriving at every stage of life.

Connecting Seniors

Farming with Respect for Animals and Land with Nan Bray

A former oceanographer who traded ocean currents for Tasmanian pastures proves that kinder, nature-led sheep farming is not only possible — it is profitable, healing, and quietly revolutionary.

Kintsugi Heroes

Transforming by Addressing the Emotional Trauma of a Challenging Life with Tim Rubin

A man who survived apartheid and combat learned that the behaviors that saved him were choices he could unmake.

Kintsugi Heroes

Why It's Never Too Late to Change Direction with Joanna Nell

A doctor who spent 35 years listening to other people's stories finally found the courage to tell her own — and in doing so, gave a voice to the elders society had forgotten.

Kintsugi Heroes

Reimagining Ageing, Death and Dignity with Jill Nash

At 86, Jill Nash has buried a child, a husband, and decades of suppressed grief — and turned every loss into a crusade for dignified dying and connected ageing.

Kintsugi Heroes

Danni's Story: From Grief to Supporting Others as an End-of-Life Doula

After losing her younger brother to a brain tumour and confronting decades of debilitating death phobia, Danni Petkovic transformed her grief into a calling — becoming an end-of-life doula, death literacy advocate, and national campaign manager who is changing the way Australians talk about dying.