The Shift with Sam Baker
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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...) is changing? Each week, award-winning author and journalist Sam Baker asks a different woman how she got here, where she's going - and how it feels to be where she is right now. Expect intimate conversation, big laughs, occasional tears and an awful lot of ripping up the rule book and stamping on it... Past guests have included Elizabeth Gilbert, Martha Beck, Siri Hustvedt, Jojo Moyes, Nicola Sturgeon, Marian Keyes, Guilty Feminist Deborah Frances-White, Minnie Driver, Philippa Perry, Anita Rani, Tracey Thorn, Isabel Allende, Bobbi Brown, Barbara Kingsolver, Zandra Rhodes, Liz Earle and many more, talking everything from confidence to career reinvention, mental health, menopause and so much more.
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- 28 episodes
- weekly
- Avg 59 min
- English
- #311Tuesday · 51 min
- S22 · E310Saturday · 1 hr 2 min
Louise O'Neill on her midlife dating odyssey - BONUS EPISODE
- #309September 15 · 49 min
Miranda July on the unexpected wildness of ageing - REPLAY
- S22 · E308September 8 · 56 min
Rachel Eliza Griffiths shares two great loves and two great griefs
- S22 · E307September 1 · 1 hr
Meera Syal: 'I am now a Triple Bad Bet – Old, Female and Brown!'
- S22 · E306August 25 · 52 min
Tabitha Webb on being an older mum & the menopause-puberty collision
- S22 · E305August 18 · 1 hr 1 min
Charlotte Wood: 'I don't fear ageing, but I do fear becoming a boring, annoying old person!'
- S22 · E304August 11 · 1 hr 3 min
Helen Thorn on how to bounce back from life's shittiest moments
- S22 · E303August 4 · 59 min
Jennie Godfrey: 'midlife is a powerful place if you lean into it'
- S22 · E302July 28 · 59 min
Jane Green on being a walkaway wife & rebuilding your life in your 50s
- S22 · E301July 21 · 48 min
Sarah Hiscox on self esteem, shame and overcoming addiction
- #300July 14 · 1 hr 6 min
Stacey Duguid on coming back from midlife collapse - THE SHIFT REVISITED
- #297June 23 · 56 min
Dawn O'Porter - on ageing, Botox, self-worth & kaftans! THE SHIFT REVISITED
- #296June 16 · 1 hr 7 min
Lyse Doucet: What I learnt from 40 years on the frontline THE SHIFT REVISITED
- S21 · E295June 9 · 1 hr 1 min
Liz Earle: 'Much of what we've been told about ageing as women is wrong'
- S21 · E294June 2 · 1 hr 2 min
Dr Kate Lister: Most women could benefit from 'pleasure education'
- S21 · E293May 26 · 1 hr 9 min
Maria Semple knows all the dirty little secrets of midlife!
- S21 · E292May 19 · 58 min
Melissa Auf der Maur on surviving the 90s and her big midlife resurrection