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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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Episoder
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Emma Freud on mothering millennials and refusing to lie about her age - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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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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Tracey Thorn has got it all going on at 60 - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Jo Whiley on menopause, finding your fashion mojo and... gardening - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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BONUS EPISODE: Barbara Kingsolver on why life gets better with every passing decade
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Lennie Goodings on ageism, bringing your A-game and the women who've shaped her
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Aasmah Mir on how she finally dislodged the pebble in her throat
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Tanya Sarne on losing Ghost, surviving rehab and living life to the full
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Josie Long on why she hopes she'll still be doing standup at 80 (old lady arms and all!)
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Joanna Cannon on why it took her 50 years to learn it's OK to be her
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Ruby Wax on building an emotional toolkit for the second half of your life
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Melanie Sykes on her autism diagnosis at 51 and being her own person
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Natasha Carthew on class, poverty and refusing to stay in her lane
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Marina Benjamin on emotional labour & the caring conundrum
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Curtis Sittenfeld rejects the idea that ageing is somehow bad or shameful
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Sarah Knight on finding the courage to make change and why selfish isn't a four letter word
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Anita B on why the beauty industry wants us to fear ageing
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Anna Murphy shares her take-no-prisoners approach to growing older
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Dani Shapiro on family secrets and coming into your full potential at 60
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Katherine May on burnout and why we all need a little more wonder in our lives
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Martha Wainwright on music, motherhood and finding love in your 40s
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Carolyn Hays on parenting a transgender child
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Charlene White on fighting the bias that still exists against older women
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Jojo Moyes on the total liberation of being in your 50s
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Cariad Lloyd on what she's learnt from 25 years in The Grief Club
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Clover Stroud on sex, sisterhood & looking forward to menopause - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Kit de Waal on race, class – and her exceedingly cool hair! - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Kat Farmer has the answer to all your "my wardrobe hates me" dilemmas - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Poorna Bell on the unexpected power in being 40 - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Sheila Hancock on the class ceiling and the "strong woman" problem - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Abi Morgan on rebuilding just about everything in your 50s - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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The Shift LIVE: Ruth Jones on daughterhood, menopause and being Nanny Ruth
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The Shift LIVE: Elif Shafak on intersectionality, identity and finding the courage to come out in her 40s
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Nadiya Hussain on becoming the independent woman her nan was afraid of
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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 ageing
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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 50s
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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 ADHD in her 40s
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Dr Jen Gunter has things she wants you to know about the menopause - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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Nana-Ama Danquah on the triple burden of mental health, menopause and being Black - THE SHIFT REVISITED
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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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