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 (569)
Emily Nagoski: what happens when a sex expert loses her sex drive?
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Anna Cascarina: you’re never too old to wear what the hell you want
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Jackie Kay on absence, adoption & the art of living together apart
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Helen Lederer on anxiety, failure & living an “alarmingly truthful” life
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Miranda July on the unexpected wildness of ageing
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Kate Muir on the menopause experience that turned her into an activist
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Amanda de Cadenet on reframing ambition and success in midlife
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Minnie Driver on ageing, expectation and creased Brad Pitt! - THE SHIFT REVISITE...
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Mariella Frostrup on refusing to be "scrap-heaped" at 50 - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Marian Keyes on HRT, Botox and learning to be shameless - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Cathy Newman: "turning 50 feels like a superpower"
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Helen Garner on marriage, divorce and why she couldn't give a monkey's about the...
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Leslie Jamison on divorce, ambition & discovering the parts of ourselves we don'...
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Lyn Slater (aka Accidental Icon) on writing a new narrative for ageing
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Karyn McCluskey on menopause, paying it forward & being the only woman in the ro...
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Annie Macmanus on rebuilding her identity at 45
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Lucinda Chambers: the former Vogue fashion director gives us a midlife style mas...
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Bryony Gordon on burnout, binge eating and perimenopause
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Jennifer Clement on women, art, creativity & why we love Frida Kahlo
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DJ paulette: how perimeno knocked her sideways at 39 (39!)
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Delia Ephron on getting a second chance at love in your 70s - THE SHIFT REVISITE...
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Julia Cameron believes creativity is the answer, whatever the question - THE SHI...
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Dr Sharon Blackie wants you to embrace your inner hag - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Raynor Winn on the power of hope & becoming a public person at 60 - THE SHIFT RE...
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Lindsey Hilsum on menopause in a warzone and why going grey is NOT brave - THE S...
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Nina Stibbe on menopause, middle age and midlife sex scenes - THE SHIFT REVISITE...
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Miriam Margolyes on the power of living a life with no secrets
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Bee Wilson on how cooking helped her heal after divorce
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Patricia Cornwell on how writing helped her take back control of her life
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Lindsey Kelk on grief, gynae hell and why she's had enough of ageism in romcoms
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Dr Gladys McGarey: a 102-year-old shares their life lessons
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India Knight answers your midlife beauty questions
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Tracy-Ann Oberman on the strong women who've shaped her
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The Shift LIVE: Trinny Woodall on how she learnt to fear less in her 50s
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Dr Louise Newson: I was "told off" for prescribing HRT
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Agony Aunt Philippa Perry is back!
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Grace Dent on balancing a Gen X body image with eating for a living
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Stacey Duguid on coming back from midlife collapse
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Sara Pascoe: what happens when a weirdo grows up!
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Natasha Walter on being a middle-aged activist
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Maggie Smith on her midlife reappearing act
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Helen Rebanks is flying the flag for invisible women
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Dawn Butler is living proof that well-behaved women seldom make history
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Miki Berenyi on freeing yourself from the anxiety of youth
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Leila Slimani: It's time women started telling each other the truth
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Andi Osho: I'm 50, get used to it!
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Annie Macmanus: why middle aged women are a force to be reckoned with - THE SHIF...
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Emma Freud on mothering millennials and refusing to lie about her age - THE SHIF...
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Alison Bechdel on her search for inner and outer strength - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Barbara Blake Hannah on feeling new at 80 - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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