The Shift with Sam Baker
The Shift is a podcast that aims to tell the truth about being a woman post-40, created and hosted by writer and broadcaster, Sam Baker. Did you ever wonder why you stop hearing so many women's voices once they pass 40? That's where The Shift comes in - a frank, funny, sometimes heartbreaking, always honest look at what it means to be a woman in midlife and beyond. Work, life, love, health, sex, money, identity, body image... What does it all mean when everything around you (and inside you...) i...
Episodes (587)
Rachel Eliza Griffiths shares two great loves and two great griefs
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Meera Syal: 'I am now a Triple Bad Bet – Old, Female and Brown!'
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Tabitha Webb on being an older mum & the menopause-puberty collision
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Charlotte Wood: 'I don't fear ageing, but I do fear becoming a boring, annoying...
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Helen Thorn on how to bounce back from life's shittiest moments
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Jennie Godfrey: 'midlife is a powerful place if you lean into it'
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Jane Green on being a walkaway wife & rebuilding your life in your 50s
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Sarah Hiscox on self esteem, shame and overcoming addiction
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Stacey Duguid on coming back from midlife collapse - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Clare Grogan: Back on the road and better than ever at 60 THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Sabrina Pace-Humphreys: how running saved me from workaholism and alcoholism THE...
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Dawn O'Porter - on ageing, Botox, self-worth & kaftans! THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Lyse Doucet: What I learnt from 40 years on the frontline THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Liz Earle: 'Much of what we've been told about ageing as women is wrong'
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Dr Kate Lister: Most women could benefit from 'pleasure education'
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Maria Semple knows all the dirty little secrets of midlife!
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Melissa Auf der Maur on surviving the 90s and her big midlife resurrection
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Katriona O'Sullivan on women's bodies, hunger & why women shrink
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Siri Hustvedt on living on when the love of your life dies
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Bryony Gordon is done with people pleasing
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Margaret Busby: Britain's first black female publisher on the power of passing i...
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Abi Morgan on rebuilding just about everything in your 50s - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Emily Nagoski knows the surprising secret to long term intimacy - THE SHIFT REVI...
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Elif Shafak on the power of older women & why menopause can be the end of shame...
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Christie Watson on menopause, mischief and midlife - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Martha Wainwright on music, motherhood & finding love in midlife - FROM THE ARCH...
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Prue Leith: 'I've had HRT patches on my bum for more than 40 years!'
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Poorna Bell is rewriting the rules around ageing
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Elizabeth Gilbert: "It's quite radical, what happens to us as we get older"
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Fatima Bhutto: surviving a coercive relationship & letting go of shame
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Catherine Newman on surviving the midlife sandwich – THE SHIFT LIVE
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Amy Larocca: 'the wellness industry sets women up to fail'
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Gretchen Rubin on happiness, acceptance and the secrets of adulthood
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Melani Sanders DOES NOT CARE - and she doesn’t care that she doesn’t care!
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Dr Gladys McGarey: Life lessons from a 103 year old - FROM THE ARCHIVES
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Isabel Allende on feminism, anger and being 'fatally heterosexual' - FROM THE AR...
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Lynda La Plante on a lifetime of breaking boundaries - FROM THE ARCHIVES
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Helen Garner on divorce, grandmothering and the erotic gaze - FROM THE ARCHIVES
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Miriam Margolyes on the power of living life without secrets - FROM THE ARCHIVES
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Lady Glenconner on stepping into the spotlight at 87
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Karen Dobres: how menopause & football turned me into an accidental radical
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Samantha Ellis on food, family and finding your identity in your 40s
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Holly Dawson on facing permanent memory loss at 40
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Bobbi Brown on doing it all her own way in her 60s
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Hollie McNish on sex, shame and telling the truth about womanhood
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Jen Hatmaker: “It’s like I woke up halfway through my life”
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THE SHIFT LIVE: Mary Portas on fashion, Ab Fab & how her childhood shaped her
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Lyse Doucet – my extraordinary 40 years on the frontline
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India Knight on finally gaining a sense of self in her 50s - from the archives
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Hilma Wolitzer: 80 years of writing – and not done yet (from the archives)
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