264 Episodes

  1. Bryony Gordon on burnout, binge eating and perimenopause - THE SHIFT REVISITED

    Published: 1/14/2025

  2. Sarah Knight: why selfish isn't a four letter word - THE SHIFT REVISITED

    Published: 1/7/2025

  3. Dr Gladys McGarey: a 102-year-old shares her life lessons - THE SHIFT REVISITED

    Published: 12/31/2024

  4. Barbara Kingsolver on why life gets better with every passing decade - THE SHIFT REVISITED

    Published: 12/24/2024

  5. Katherine May: why we all need a little more wonder in our lives - THE SHIFT REVISITED

    Published: 12/17/2024

  6. BONUS EPISODE: Neneh Cherry on love, loss & legacy

    Published: 12/10/2024

  7. Bella Freud: "I've definitely got more daring with age"

    Published: 12/3/2024

  8. Donna Ashworth on finding her calling in midlife

    Published: 11/26/2024

  9. Baroness Lola Young: "you can't be what you can't see, but somebody has to go first"

    Published: 11/19/2024

  10. Jennifer Cox: why women are furious (and getting angrier)

    Published: 11/12/2024

  11. Louise Doughty on the unrealised potential of older women

    Published: 11/5/2024

  12. Kate Weinberg on the kindness of women & living with a mother-shaped hole

    Published: 10/29/2024

  13. Vanessa Feltz on divorce, dating and finally shaking off her inhibitions at 62

    Published: 10/22/2024

  14. Jane Campbell on reinventing herself at 40 – and again at 80!

    Published: 10/15/2024

  15. Marianne Power: how to build a happy single life

    Published: 10/8/2024

  16. Louise Minchin: why midlife is the time to take more risks

    Published: 10/1/2024

  17. Moon Unit Zappa: "We're all just growing each other up"

    Published: 9/24/2024

  18. Carol Vorderman on finding her voice (and how!) at 60

    Published: 9/17/2024

  19. Bella Mackie: "Nobody tells you motherhood is a choice"

    Published: 9/10/2024

  20. Ruth Crilly: "This is my face, I don't want to tweak it"

    Published: 9/3/2024

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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]