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)
Caryn Franklin on why fashion still fails older women - from the archives
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Lisa Jewell on hitting a golden seam of success in her 50s - FROM THE ARCHIVES
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Thomasina Miers on the midlife Mexican escape that rebuilt her
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Laura Lippmann is having a second coming at 60
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Charlotte Mendelson – middle-aged women are entitled to want more
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Betsy Lerner is on a mission to destigmatise mental health in her 60s
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Nicola Sturgeon on life after leadership
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Sarah Perry on "becoming a woman who didn't have children"
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Glynnis MacNicol: everything you've been told about being a middle-aged woman is...
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Steph McGovern on money, menopause & staying out of your lane
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Alison Bechdel on tarot, ageing & why men are scared of women who can do push-up...
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Esther Freud on upending your life in your 50s - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Helen Garner on divorce, ageing and the erotic gaze - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Molly Jong Fast: confessions of a bad daughter
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Jo Hamilton: The Post Office scandal stole 20 years of my life
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Olia Hercules: my periods vanished when the war started
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Melissa Febos on what she learnt from a year of celibacy
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Reeta Chakrabarti on growing older & bolder
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Jeanine Cummins on confidence, identity and surviving the American Dirt controve...
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Jennifer Weiner on Ozempic, ageing and growing some boundaries!
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Naga munchetty on her 30 year battle to get her painful periods taken seriously
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Clover Stroud on grief, love, sex & sisterhood - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Tracey Thorn on being a woman in a bloke's world, hormones and going "statement...
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Maggie O'Farrell on Hamnet, imposter syndrome and why she didn't think she's the...
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The "other" Maggie Smith on her midlife reappearing act - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Lorraine Kelly on menopause, misogyny, toxic men in telly, being a granny, Botox...
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Jenni Fagan: I'm 46, nobody thought I'd make it past 16
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Ione Skye: I'm still working on being seen in the world – and I'm 50
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Denise Lewis shares her secrets for adapting to a big life shift
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Liz O'Riordan: When breast cancer surgeon becomes breast cancer patient
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Martha Beck on creativity, anxiety & finding your life's purpose
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Diana Evans on expectation, ageing & turning 50 without her twin
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Kate Fagan on success, ambition and ageing alongside the L-word!
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Miranda July on the unexpected wildness of ageing - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Ruby Wax on building an emotional toolkit for the second half of your life - THE...
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Dani Shapiro on family secrets and coming into your full potential at 60 - THE S...
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Bryony Gordon on burnout, binge eating and perimenopause - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Sarah Knight: why selfish isn't a four letter word - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Dr Gladys McGarey: a 102-year-old shares her life lessons - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Barbara Kingsolver on why life gets better with every passing decade - THE SHIFT...
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Katherine May: why we all need a little more wonder in our lives - THE SHIFT REV...
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BONUS EPISODE: Neneh Cherry on love, loss & legacy
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Bella Freud: "I've definitely got more daring with age"
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Donna Ashworth on finding her calling in midlife
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Baroness Lola Young: "you can't be what you can't see, but somebody has to go fi...
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Jennifer Cox: why women are furious (and getting angrier)
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Louise Doughty on the unrealised potential of older women
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Kate Weinberg on the kindness of women & living with a mother-shaped hole
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Vanessa Feltz on divorce, dating and finally shaking off her inhibitions at 62
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Jane Campbell on reinventing herself at 40 – and again at 80!
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