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Stephen Keys

@stephen.keys

articles: 15
total claps: 1
top claps: 1
avg read: 5.8 min
active: 2025-12-30 → 2026-07-06

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🎵 · Music & Audio · 3 🎮 · Gaming · 2 BIZ · Business Strategy · 2 ECO · Economy · General · 2 ✨ · Lifestyle · General · 2 🚀 · Self Improvement · 2 PFI · Personal Finance · 1 ⚽ · Football / Soccer · 1

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#midlife ·13 #community ·2 #podcast ·2 #giving ·2 #civic-life ·1 #newspapers ·1 #pilgrimage ·1 #pilgrims ·1 #wealth ·1 #wealth-management ·1

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ST Stephen Keys · The Wisdom Vault

Fostering in midlife

At some point in midlife, we take inventory. Money. Career. Usefulness.

Jun 15, 2026 · 5 min read · 1 claps #midlife #fostering

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The man who learned leadership from goats

Smiling Gecko, in rural Cambodia, is a place that challenges your assumptions and welded on beliefs. An hour and a half outside Phnom Penh…

Jul 06, 2026 · 8 min read · 0 claps #podcast #giving #smiling-gecko

The man who learned leadership from goats

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When the wealth shifts

We are staring down one of the most consequential economic and moral moments in modern Australian life: the Great Wealth Transfer.

Mar 02, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps #wealth #wealth-management #midlife

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Handle hard better

I get it. On paper, running 300 kilometres across the UK in six days sounds excessive. Unnecessary. Possibly even a sign of poor life…

May 11, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps #midlife #running #coast-to-coast

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The midlife health check that doesn’t cost a fortune

I recently picked up a magazine with a feature article Guide to Body Scans, a glossy tour through the growing world of full-body medical…

Apr 20, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #midlife #healthy-lifestyle #health-check

The midlife health check that doesn’t cost a fortune

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Where is home?

To my friend Helmut Schütte,

Apr 13, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #home #midlife #retirement-plans

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Why I created The Giving Habit podcast

On 1st July I will be launching a new podcast miniseries called The Giving Habit. It’s focus is charitable giving, contribution, social…

Jun 29, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #midlife #giving #philanthropy

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Let everything happen to you

There’s a particular kind of poet that only starts to make sense once you’ve lived long enough to be ambushed by your own life. Rainer…

May 18, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #midlife #rainer-maria-rilke

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Wabi-sabi and the midlife condition

Learning to See the Beauty in What Time Has Touched

Jun 08, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #midlife #kintsugi #wabi-sabi

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Be here now

There’s a line that is often attributed to the musician John Lennon: life is what happens while you’re making other plans.

May 04, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #midlife #gratitude

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In praise of the physical

When was the last time you read a physical newspaper or magazine? For me it is a gift. Not just the faint rustle of pages turning, but also…

May 25, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #midlife #newspapers

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He who would valiant be: pilgrimage and midlife

Last year, more than half a million pilgrims walked the Camino di Santiago, the highest number ever recorded. And among them, Australians…

Apr 27, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #midlife #pilgrimage #pilgrims

He who would valiant be: pilgrimage and midlife

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The melancholy of all things completed

I have never quite known what to do on New Year’s Eve.

Dec 30, 2025 · 6 min read · 0 claps #midlife #new-years-resolutions #reflections-of-life

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The place we no longer have

A man sits alone in a parked car outside Tesco eating a sausage roll he does not particularly want. Another scrolls his phone on a gym…

Jun 01, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #community #civic-life

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Bleak house

Football supporters know something about disappointment. Years ago, Sunderland fans produced the wonderfully named fanzine It’s The Hope I…

Jun 22, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #midlife #football #disappointment