264 Episodes

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

    Published: 6/3/2025

  2. Reeta Chakrabarti on growing older & bolder

    Published: 5/27/2025

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

    Published: 5/20/2025

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

    Published: 5/13/2025

  5. Naga munchetty on her 30 year battle to get her painful periods taken seriously 

    Published: 5/6/2025

  6. Clover Stroud on grief, love, sex & sisterhood - THE SHIFT REVISITED

    Published: 4/29/2025

  7. Tracey Thorn on being a woman in a bloke's world, hormones and going "statement grey" - THE SHIFT REVISITED

    Published: 4/22/2025

  8. Maggie O'Farrell on Hamnet, imposter syndrome and why she didn't think she's the marrying kind: THE SHIFT REVISITED

    Published: 4/15/2025

  9. The "other" Maggie Smith on her midlife reappearing act - THE SHIFT REVISITED

    Published: 4/8/2025

  10. Lorraine Kelly on menopause, misogyny, toxic men in telly, being a granny, Botox, you name it!

    Published: 4/1/2025

  11. Jenni Fagan: I'm 46, nobody thought I'd make it past 16

    Published: 3/25/2025

  12. Ione Skye: I'm still working on being seen in the world – and I'm 50

    Published: 3/18/2025

  13. Denise Lewis shares her secrets for adapting to a big life shift

    Published: 3/11/2025

  14. Liz O'Riordan: When breast cancer surgeon becomes breast cancer patient

    Published: 3/4/2025

  15. Martha Beck on creativity, anxiety & finding your life's purpose

    Published: 2/25/2025

  16. Diana Evans on expectation, ageing & turning 50 without her twin

    Published: 2/18/2025

  17. Kate Fagan on success, ambition and ageing alongside the L-word!

    Published: 2/11/2025

  18. Miranda July on the unexpected wildness of ageing - THE SHIFT REVISITED

    Published: 2/4/2025

  19. Ruby Wax on building an emotional toolkit for the second half of your life - THE SHIFT REVISITED

    Published: 1/28/2025

  20. Dani Shapiro on family secrets and coming into your full potential at 60 - THE SHIFT REVISITED

    Published: 1/21/2025

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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]