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...
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Episodes (587)
Kaye Adams on ambition, insecurity and surviving Strictly
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Sali Hughes on the positive power of being a grown up
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Milly Johnson on grafting, greetings cards and life in the "sandwich" zone
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Caryn Franklin on how being a carer in her thirties changed her attitude to agei...
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Marina Hyde on gaining confidence and growing older riskily
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Dawn O'Porter on cats, kaftans and kicking the need to be liked
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Sharon Blackie on embracing your inner hag & the magic of menopause!
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Susannah Constantine on alcoholism, 'mental' menopause & finding herself in her...
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Raynor Winn on walking, nature and the power of hope
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Deborah Frances-White on feminism, guilt-exfoliation and being diagnosed with AD...
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Dr Jen Gunter has things she wants you to know about the menopause - THE SHIFT R...
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Nana-Ama Danquah on the triple burden of mental health, menopause and being Blac...
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Anita Rani on why her 40s are her power decade - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Lisa Jewell on hitting a golden seam of success in her 50s
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Hilma Wolitzer: 80 years of writing, and not done yet
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Clare Grogan on the superpower that helped her survive her most difficult decade
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Emma Forrest on sex, celibacy and solitude
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Kit de Waal on race, class, privilege – and her exceedingly cool hair!
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Julia Cameron on alcoholism, creativity and emotional sobriety
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Jane Fallon on embracing 60 and being a Botox hold-out
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CJ Hauser on learning to live your own dreams, not other people’s
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A quick word from Sam
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Poorna Bell on the unexpected power in being 40
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Lisa Taddeo on women, power and the success stitch-up
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Janey Godley on kicking the "I'm fine" compulsion & being proud to be gallus
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Sabrina Pace-Humphreys on rural racism, alcoholism and the life-saving power of...
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Ruth Ozeki on why menopause is the new adolescence - FROM THE ARCHIVES
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Christie Watson on menopause, midlife and mischief
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Sheila Hancock on sexism, classism and the double-edged sword of being seen as a...
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Natalie Lee on breaking free of shame and finding sexual freedom
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Amy Bloom on love, death, dignity – and tarot!
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BONUS: Sam Baker on menopause, the HRT lottery and the power of invisibility
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Minnie Driver on ageing, expectation and creased Brad Pitt!
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Abi Morgan on embracing catastrophe and rebuilding just about everything in your...
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Chitra Ramaswamy on memory, mothering & the "mid-life gift" of responsibility
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Nina Stibbe on the relationship-saving power of a sofa bed!
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Jojo Moyes on radical life change in your 40s - FROM THE ARCHIVES
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Philippa Perry takes issue with your inner critic - FROM THE ARCHIVE
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Lindsey Hilsum on menopause in a warzone - FROM THE ARCHIVES
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Delia Ephron on getting a second chance at life and love in your 70s
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Kat Farmer has the answer to all your "my wardrobe hates me" dilemmas
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Dana Spiotta on putting paid to menopause shame
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Clover Stroud on grief, love, sex and sisterhood
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Barbara Blake Hannah on feeling new at 80 and why she believes in miracles
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Christina Patterson on how to deal with the blows life throws at you
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Marian Keyes is BACK!
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Jami Attenberg on the joy of starting over and finding a place of your own
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Dorothy Koomson on how she learnt to be enough
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Nicola Sturgeon on power and the fiftysomething woman
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Pepsi and Shirlie on miscarriage, mental health and 40 years of friendship
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