The Shift (on life after 40) with Sam Baker

sam baker

193 Episodes

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, 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 love The Shift and would like to become a member of our community and receive a weekly newsletter, join The Shift bookclub and so much more, please visit https://steadyhq.com/en/theshift/

Podcasts Similar to The Shift (on life after 40) with Sam Baker

The Sunday Salon with Alice-Azania Jarvis (91.41%)

The Sunday Salon

Everything is Fine (91.23%)

Jennifer Romolini and Kim France

Harriet Minter Presents: Badass Women’s Hour (90.44%)

Badass Women’s Hour

What's Underneath with StyleLikeU (89.34%)

StyleLikeU

The Polyester Podcast (88.92%)

The Polyester Podcast

Spinsterhood Reimagined (88.41%)

Lucy Meggeson

We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle (88.34%)

Glennon Doyle & Cadence13

The High Low (87.7%)

Pandora Sykes and Dolly Alderton

Only One In The Room (87.65%)

Laura Cathcart Robbins

The Spoken World Podcast (87.53%)

The Spoken World Podcast

Gender Stories (87.52%)

Alex Iantaffi

I'm Absolutely Fine! by The Midult (87.52%)

The Midult

U in the Ring (87.48%)

CFUV

Diary, She Wrote (87.48%)

Diary She Wrote, Liz Beardsell

Dr. Hannah McGregor – Secret Feminist Agenda (87.39%)

None

Dropping In (87.33%)

Diane Dewey

Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books™️ (87.26%)

A Zcast Production

QueerWOC (87.24%)

QueerWOC

After Work Drinks (87.23%)

Isabelle Truman & Grace O'Neill

Deeply Human (87.1%)

iHeartPodcasts/BBC/APM

Top of the Pile, Simon & Schuster Australia (87.09%)

Author interviews with Simon & Schuster Australia

The Sisterhood of MummyImperfect Podcast (87.05%)

MummyImperfect

free your thoughts (87.02%)

Erick Bateman

Rebelliously Tiny (87.02%)

Ambivalently Yours

PRIDE (87.0%)

Straw Hut Media

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast (86.94%)

Jen Hatmaker

Brunch & Bantu Knots Podcast (86.86%)

Brunch & Bantu Knots

The Fox and the Phoenix (86.85%)

Savannah Hauk, Author & Julie Rubenstein, Style Consultant

BOOKSTORM: Deep Dive Into Best-Selling Fiction (86.85%)

Christen Civiletto & Chris Storm

This Queer Book Saved My Life (86.74%)

J.P. Der Boghossian

How To! (86.72%)

Slate Podcasts

Book Interrupted (86.62%)

Book Interrupted

Birmingham Lit Fest Presents…. (86.46%)

Writing West Midlands

Beau my God (86.44%)

Beau Bradley

SHE / THEY / GAY (86.43%)

Noto Botanics

Andy Overthinks (86.4%)

AndyOverthinks.com

Lev Does Life With Big J (86.31%)

Lev

Radio Gorgeous (86.26%)

The UK's Longest Running all Female Podcasters

Snack Size: The Podcast (86.18%)

Lala Luzious

Dope Black Dads Podcast (86.07%)

Dope Black Dads Podcast

The Curious Life (86.0%)

Written, hosted and produced by Jana Firestone

Wondermine (85.97%)

Larissa Parson & Elizabeth M. Johnson

A Lesbian Affair (85.88%)

Jess W.

Write Where It Hurts (85.87%)

Eva Des Lauriers

Say It With Your Chest (85.86%)

Girls Will Be Boys

Intergenerational Queer Audio Project (85.81%)

Oregon Children's Theatre

Books To Live By… with Mariella Frostrup (85.74%)

BBC Radio

FORTY (85.68%)

Those Two Girls

Brown Girls Read (85.54%)

Daman & Khyati

How You Feeling? w/Coco & Fran (85.53%)

How You Feeling? w/Coco & Fran

Audacious with Chion Wolf (85.48%)

Connecticut Public Radio

Tea Buddies Podcast (85.45%)

Tea Buddies

Small Screens (85.41%)

Small Screens

The Carol-Van: A (Van) Life Podcast (85.36%)

Carol

How To Own The Room (85.36%)

Viv Groskop

Rich Text (85.36%)

Emma Gray & Claire Fallon

Elephant ITR (85.35%)

Candice Hines

A Fresher Take (85.29%)

A Fresher Take Podcast

HarperCollins Publishers (85.28%)

HarperCollins Publishers

Growing up with gal-dem (85.27%)

gal-dem

Frankly Speaking, with Lynne Franks & Friends (85.23%)

Lynne Franks

Friendshipable (85.21%)

Terri + Manya

The Experience Podcast (85.2%)

Elizabeth Pearson Garr

Audio Stories by The Spill (85.15%)

The Spill

LeftOnRead (85.15%)

LeftOnRead

The L Takers Show (85.14%)

The L Takers

Ctrl Alt Delete (85.1%)

Emma Gannon

Dear Diary with the optimist and the antisocial (85.09%)

Dear Diary Podcast

Truth Be Told (85.09%)

KQED

Relatively (85.07%)

Pocket Productions Ltd

Hachette Audio UK (85.06%)

Hachette Audio UK

Stay in the Loop with Lucy (85.06%)

Lucy Dahill

DAVID (85.02%)

David

Selected Shorts (85.0%)

Symphony Space

The Take (84.94%)

The Roost

Multiple Generations (84.91%)

Hope Wright

4 Poofs & A Podcast (84.9%)

Myles Dobson

Love Will Tear Us Apart (84.9%)

Lauren Modery

Dogs Are Smarter Than People: Writing Life, Marriage and Motivation (84.89%)

Carrie Jones and Shaun Farrar

Books That Matter (84.87%)

Books That Matter

The Great Overthinker (84.85%)

Jazimar

From Girls to Women: Voices of Young Black females (84.82%)

From Girls to Women: Voices of Young Black Females

Breaking the Boy Code (84.81%)

Supported by Next Gen Men

Naoness: The Power of Connection (84.8%)

Naoko x Naoko

Fursat Feminism: A conversation podcast (84.77%)

Arundhati and Deepa

Stephenie Meyer Ruined My Life (84.76%)

Nermer Nermer Network

Blunt Talk (84.76%)

Blunt Talk

Black Feminist & Bookish (84.72%)

Cafe Con Libros, Bk: An Intersectional Feminist Bookstore & Coffee Shop

Selected Shorts (84.71%)

LiveWriters

Bittersweet Podcast (84.68%)

Wintana Kidane and Rahel Davies

No Filter (84.67%)

Mamamia Podcasts

TEA WITH JULES (84.62%)

Jules Sebastian

The Talk (84.6%)

The Talk

Getting Better Acquainted (84.6%)

Getting Better Acquainted

The Other Room (84.58%)

The Gold Coast Report

The Yellow Pill Podcast (84.56%)

Wolé and Tobi

Sidepiece Season (84.56%)

Enero

quercusbooks (84.47%)

quercusbooks

Hodder Books (84.47%)

Hodder Books

Culturally Speaking (84.44%)

Culturally Speaking