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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...) 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.If you enjoy The Shift podcast, and you'd like to show the love, you can buy me a coffee at
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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 running
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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 "strong woman"
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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 50s
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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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Lynda La Plante on breaking boundaries and why there STILL aren't enough good roles for women
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Liz Fraser on living with and loving an alcoholic
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Mariella Frostrup on fearlessness, menopause and knowing your worth
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Bobbi Brown on taking a leap at 64
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Ruth Ozeki on why menopause is the new adolescence
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Fi Glover and Jane Garvey on Fortunately, friendship and pushing boundaries in your 50s
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Paula Sutton on how age has liberated her and the rejuvenating power of dressing up
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Val McDermid on anger, ageing – and an unlikely "cure" for menopause
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Sophie Ellis Bextor on music, men and motherhood
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Tasmina Perry on career, confidence and how not to get stuck at the amber light (from the archives)
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Marian Keyes on menopause, Botox and learning to be shameless (from the archive)
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Isabel Allende on feminism, anger and being fatally heterosexual (from the archive)
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Denise Mina gets frank about HRT, sex and ageing (from the archive)
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Jess Phillips on why we need to talk about menopause in parliament
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Lucy Kellaway on fear, freedom and starting a whole new life in her 50s
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