260 Episodes

  1. Caryn Franklin on why fashion still fails older women - from the archives

    Published: 9/23/2025

  2. Lisa Jewell on hitting a golden seam of success in her 50s - FROM THE ARCHIVES

    Published: 9/16/2025

  3. Thomasina Miers on the midlife Mexican escape that rebuilt her

    Published: 9/9/2025

  4. Laura Lippmann is having a second coming at 60

    Published: 9/2/2025

  5. Charlotte Mendelson – middle-aged women are entitled to want more

    Published: 8/26/2025

  6. Betsy Lerner is on a mission to destigmatise mental health in her 60s

    Published: 8/19/2025

  7. Nicola Sturgeon on life after leadership

    Published: 8/12/2025

  8. Sarah Perry on "becoming a woman who didn't have children"

    Published: 8/5/2025

  9. Glynnis MacNicol: everything you've been told about being a middle-aged woman is a lie

    Published: 7/29/2025

  10. Steph McGovern on money, menopause & staying out of your lane

    Published: 7/22/2025

  11. Alison Bechdel on tarot, ageing & why men are scared of women who can do push-ups! - THE SHIFT REVISITED

    Published: 7/15/2025

  12. Esther Freud on upending your life in your 50s - THE SHIFT REVISITED

    Published: 7/8/2025

  13. Helen Garner on divorce, ageing and the erotic gaze - THE SHIFT REVISITED

    Published: 7/1/2025

  14. Molly Jong Fast: confessions of a bad daughter

    Published: 6/24/2025

  15. Jo Hamilton: The Post Office scandal stole 20 years of my life

    Published: 6/17/2025

  16. Olia Hercules: my periods vanished when the war started

    Published: 6/10/2025

  17. Melissa Febos on what she learnt from a year of celibacy

    Published: 6/3/2025

  18. Reeta Chakrabarti on growing older & bolder

    Published: 5/27/2025

  19. Jeanine Cummins on confidence, identity and surviving the American Dirt controversy

    Published: 5/20/2025

  20. Jennifer Weiner on Ozempic, ageing and growing some boundaries!

    Published: 5/13/2025

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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 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 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theshiftwithsambaker And if you really love The Shift and would like to hear more conversations with women over 40, why not become a member of our community and receive a weekly newsletter, get exclusive transcripts, join The Shift bookclub and so much more, please visit https://theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com/ For advertising enquiries, email [email protected]