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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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Paula Hawkins on midlife success and the importance of financial independence
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Laura Friedman Williams on sex and the newly single 40something mum
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Torrey Peters on finding a roadmap for ageing as a trans woman
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Terri White on work, class and mental health
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Anita Rani on ditching the baggage, owning her anger and why her 40s are her power decade
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Dr Jen Gunter on menopause, mental health and why we all need a meno-party
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Esther Freud on motherhood, guilt and upending your life in your 50s
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Kate Mosse: why caring is a feminist issue (from the archives)
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Pragya Agarwal on shame, surrogacy and the many faces of motherhood
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Annie Mac on turning 40 and why middle aged women are a force to be reckoned with
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Mona Eltahawy on anger, ambition and ageing disgracefully
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Alison Bechdel on her search for inner and outer strength. Plus tarot
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Anya Hindmarch on beating self doubt and why fashion needs to take some responsibility
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Tamsin Calidas: the truth about the "escape to the country" dream
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Tracey Thorn on being a woman in a bloke’s world, hormones and going statement grey
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Mel Giedroyc on starting a new career at 51 and being a menopause dodger
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Lindsey Hilsum on Marie Colvin, menopause in a warzone and why going grey is NOT brave
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Sadie Frost and Frances Ruffelle on 40 years of friendship - and why it's more important than love
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Nana-Ama Danquah on the triple burden of mental health, menopause and being black
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Isabel Allende on feminism, anger and being "fatally heterosexual"
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Rosie Green: a how to cope with mid-life crisis special
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Sarah Pinborough on why women need to get comfortable talking about money
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Alexandra Heminsley on body image, identity and building an LGBTQ+ family
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Kate Mosse on why caring is a feminist issue
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Salena Godden on why 40-plus is where the party is
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Philippa Perry on getting hold of the "steering wheel of life"
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Season 3 of The Shift with Sam Baker is back!!
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Gabby Logan on resilience, reclaiming middle age – and why equality begins at home
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Erica Davies is here to help you rediscover your fashion mojo
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Maggie O'Farrell on imposter syndrome and why she didn't think she was "the marrying kind"
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Denise Mina on the feminism, HRT and how to be assertive
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Meg Mathews on menopause, osteoporosis and feeling like she'd "lost it"
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Jodi Picoult on sexism, Donald Trump and why everyone has a "what if?" moment
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Bryony Gordon on alcoholism, mental health & why she feels lucky to be 40
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Karen Arthur on how to turn a breakdown into a breakthrough and #MenopauseWhilstBlack
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Emma Freud on millennials, going grey and why she'll never lie about her age
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Kate Spicer on menopause stereotypes, being child-free and single at 50
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Jo Whiley on regaining your confidence, finding your fashion mojo and... gardening
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Caroline de Maigret on being older but better and grown up style
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Jojo Moyes on visibility, imposter syndrome and female friendship
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Sara Collins on the power of women and turning a midlife crisis into success
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Marian Keyes on menopause, Botox and learning to be shameless
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Tasmina Perry on career, confidence and how not to get stuck at the amber light
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