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.
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Previous Episodes
- Nicola Sturgeon on life after leadership 12.08.2025
- Sarah Perry on "becoming a woman who didn't have children" 05.08.2025
- Glynnis MacNicol: everything you've been told about being a middle-aged woman is a lie 29.07.2025
- Steph McGovern on money, menopause & staying out of your lane 22.07.2025
- Alison Bechdel on tarot, ageing & why men are scared of women who can do push-ups! - THE SHIFT REVISITED 15.07.2025
- Esther Freud on upending your life in your 50s - THE SHIFT REVISITED 08.07.2025
- Helen Garner on divorce, ageing and the erotic gaze - THE SHIFT REVISITED 01.07.2025
- Molly Jong Fast: confessions of a bad daughter 24.06.2025
- Jo Hamilton: The Post Office scandal stole 20 years of my life 17.06.2025
- Olia Hercules: my periods vanished when the war started 10.06.2025
- Melissa Febos on what she learnt from a year of celibacy 03.06.2025
- Reeta Chakrabarti on growing older & bolder 27.05.2025
- Jeanine Cummins on confidence, identity and surviving the American Dirt controversy 20.05.2025
- Jennifer Weiner on Ozempic, ageing and growing some boundaries! 13.05.2025
- Naga munchetty on her 30 year battle to get her painful periods taken seriously 06.05.2025
- Clover Stroud on grief, love, sex & sisterhood - THE SHIFT REVISITED 29.04.2025
- Tracey Thorn on being a woman in a bloke's world, hormones and going "statement grey" - THE SHIFT REVISITED 22.04.2025
- Maggie O'Farrell on Hamnet, imposter syndrome and why she didn't think she's the marrying kind: THE SHIFT REVISITED 15.04.2025
- The "other" Maggie Smith on her midlife reappearing act - THE SHIFT REVISITED 08.04.2025
- Lorraine Kelly on menopause, misogyny, toxic men in telly, being a granny, Botox, you name it! 01.04.2025
