# The Shift with Sam Baker

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Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838.md
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Official site: https://theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com/
Author: Sam Baker Ltd
Episodes: 296

## Resource

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…

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## Episodes
- [Dr Kate Lister: Most women could benefit from 'pleasure education'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/dr-kate-lister-most-women-could-benefit-from-pleasure-education) — 2026-06-02T00:00:00+00:00
- [Maria Semple knows all the dirty little secrets of midlife!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/maria-semple-knows-all-the-dirty-little-secrets-of-midlife) — 2026-05-26T00:00:00+00:00
- [Melissa Auf der Maur on surviving the 90s and her big midlife resurrection](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/melissa-auf-der-maur-on-surviving-the-90s-and-her-big-midlife-resurrection) — 2026-05-19T00:00:00+00:00
- [Katriona O'Sullivan on women's bodies, hunger & why women shrink](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/katriona-o-sullivan-on-women-s-bodies-hunger-why-women-shrink) — 2026-05-12T00:00:00+00:00
- [Siri Hustvedt on living on when the love of your life dies](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/siri-hustvedt-on-living-on-when-the-love-of-your-life-dies) — 2026-05-05T00:00:00+00:00
- [Bryony Gordon is done with people pleasing](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/bryony-gordon-is-done-with-people-pleasing) — 2026-04-28T00:00:00+00:00
- [Margaret Busby: Britain's first black female publisher on the power of passing it on](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/margaret-busby-britain-s-first-black-female-publisher-on-the-power-of-passing-it-on) — 2026-04-21T00:00:00+00:00
- [Abi Morgan on rebuilding just about everything in your 50s - THE SHIFT REVISITED](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/abi-morgan-on-rebuilding-just-about-everything-in-your-50s-the-shift-revisited) — 2026-04-14T00:00:00+00:00
- [Emily Nagoski knows the surprising secret to long term intimacy - THE SHIFT REVISITED](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/emily-nagoski-knows-the-surprising-secret-to-long-term-intimacy-the-shift-revisited) — 2026-04-07T00:00:00+00:00
- [Elif Shafak on the power of older women & why menopause can be the end of shame - THE SHIFT REVISITED](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/elif-shafak-on-the-power-of-older-women-why-menopause-can-be-the-end-of-shame-the-shift-revisited) — 2026-03-31T00:00:00+00:00
- [Christie Watson on menopause, mischief and midlife - THE SHIFT REVISITED](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/christie-watson-on-menopause-mischief-and-midlife-the-shift-revisited) — 2026-03-24T01:00:00+00:00
- [Martha Wainwright on music, motherhood & finding love in midlife - FROM THE ARCHIVES](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/martha-wainwright-on-music-motherhood-finding-love-in-midlife-from-the-archives) — 2026-03-17T01:00:00+00:00
- [Prue Leith: 'I've had HRT patches on my bum for more than 40 years!'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/prue-leith-i-ve-had-hrt-patches-on-my-bum-for-more-than-40-years) — 2026-03-10T01:00:00+00:00
- [Poorna Bell is rewriting the rules around ageing](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/poorna-bell-is-rewriting-the-rules-around-ageing) — 2026-03-03T05:00:00+00:00
- [Elizabeth Gilbert: "It's quite radical, what happens to us as we get older"](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/elizabeth-gilbert-it-s-quite-radical-what-happens-to-us-as-we-get-older) — 2026-02-24T05:00:00+00:00
- [Fatima Bhutto: surviving a coercive relationship & letting go of shame](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/fatima-bhutto-surviving-a-coercive-relationship-letting-go-of-shame) — 2026-02-17T05:00:00+00:00
- [Catherine Newman on surviving the midlife sandwich – THE SHIFT LIVE](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/catherine-newman-on-surviving-the-midlife-sandwich-the-shift-live) — 2026-02-10T05:00:00+00:00
- [Amy Larocca: 'the wellness industry sets women up to fail'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/amy-larocca-the-wellness-industry-sets-women-up-to-fail) — 2026-02-03T05:00:00+00:00
- [Gretchen Rubin on happiness, acceptance and the secrets of adulthood](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/gretchen-rubin-on-happiness-acceptance-and-the-secrets-of-adulthood) — 2026-01-27T05:00:00+00:00
- [Melani Sanders DOES NOT CARE - and she doesn’t care that she doesn’t care!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/melani-sanders-does-not-care-and-she-doesn-t-care-that-she-doesn-t-care) — 2026-01-20T05:00:00+00:00
- [Dr Gladys McGarey: Life lessons from a 103 year old - FROM THE ARCHIVES](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/dr-gladys-mcgarey-life-lessons-from-a-103-year-old-from-the-archives) — 2026-01-13T01:00:00+00:00
- [Isabel Allende on feminism, anger and being 'fatally heterosexual' - FROM THE ARCHIVES](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/isabel-allende-on-feminism-anger-and-being-fatally-heterosexual-from-the-archives) — 2026-01-06T01:00:00+00:00
- [Lynda La Plante on a lifetime of breaking boundaries - FROM THE ARCHIVES](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/lynda-la-plante-on-a-lifetime-of-breaking-boundaries-from-the-archives) — 2025-12-30T01:00:00+00:00
- [Helen Garner on divorce, grandmothering and the erotic gaze - FROM THE ARCHIVES](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/helen-garner-on-divorce-grandmothering-and-the-erotic-gaze-from-the-archives) — 2025-12-23T01:00:00+00:00
- [Miriam Margolyes on the power of living life without secrets - FROM THE ARCHIVES](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shift-with-sam-baker-1305838/miriam-margolyes-on-the-power-of-living-life-without-secrets-from-the-archives) — 2025-12-16T01:00:00+00:00

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