The Shift (on life after 40) with Sam Baker
By 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...) 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 Nicola Sturgeon, Marian Keyes, Guilty Feminist Deborah Frances-White, Minnie Driver, Philippa Perry, Anita Rani, Tracey Thorn, Isabel Allende, Bobbi Brown, Barbara Blake-Hannah and many more, talking everything from confidence to career reinvention, mental health, menopause and so much more.
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Latest episode
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Minnie Driver on ageing, expectation and creased Brad Pitt! - THE SHIFT REVISITED
The myth of the difficult woman, marriage "failure" and Hollywood's double standards (amongst other things!) -
Mariella Frostrup on refusing to be "scrap-heaped" at 50 - THE SHIFT REVISITED
The broadcaster and women's health campaigner is on a mission to "burst the bubble of poison bile!" that surrounds menopause -
Marian Keyes on HRT, Botox and learning to be shameless - THE SHIFT REVISITED
The bestselling Irish novelist has a fair few things to say about menopause! -
Cathy Newman: "turning 50 feels like a superpower"
The broadcaster on menopause, trolling, equal pay and why "the ladder" doesn't really work for women and minorities -
Helen Garner on marriage, divorce and why she couldn't give a monkey's about the erotic gaze
One of Australia's greatest living writers on the weirdness of achieving "international recognition" in her 80s -
Leslie Jamison on divorce, ambition & discovering the parts of ourselves we don't yet know
Oh, and if you want to know the secret to how to say no – and make it stick! – you've come to the right place! -
Lyn Slater (aka Accidental Icon) on writing a new narrative for ageing
The social worker turned influencer turned debut writer at 70 tells how she lost herself to life online, how her mother's dementia changed her own attitude to clothes and deciding to swap fashion for family -
Karyn McCluskey on menopause, paying it forward & being the only woman in the room
The forensic psychologist and former police officer talks about a life lived in a room full of men - as a single mother -
Annie Macmanus on rebuilding her identity at 45
The writer and broadcaster talks hormones, loneliness, football, manicures and making new friends in your 40s -
Lucinda Chambers: the former Vogue fashion director gives us a midlife style masterclass
The former Vogue fashion director also talks adapting to massive midlife change, coming to terms with being a workaholic, losing the job that defined her and why everyone needs the five fashion food groups