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When your job is your identity, what's left when you leave it?
It's taken me ten years to find the answer
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Is it a podcast? Is it a newsletter? Is it a community?
It’s all of the above! And more…
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Come and say hi, I'd love to know a bit more about you
Hello, I’m Sam, I’m a recovering magazine editor who stumbled into making podcasts and discovered I LOVED it. I relocated to Edinburgh three yea…
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I've been trying to write about Russell Brand, but I can't
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The constant pain that dominated my pre-menopause life
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How I became a person who doesn't drink
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Maggie Smith and the belated lure of the much older woman
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The books that moved me in 2023
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What you might have missed in November
102-year-old Dr Gladys McGarey on living well; India Knight on midlife beauty; what happens when you leave your job and lose your identity & facing down…
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What's got my attention this week #28
Things to read, watch and listen to this weekend
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If they can see us, they can fleece us
How much lower can menopause marketing go?
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What's got my attention this week #27
A bumper scroll, plus things to read, watch and listen to this weekend
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What I learnt from talking to a 102-year-old woman
Ageing into health, learning from the moment you're in, the power of femifesting… come spend an hour with the wisest woman I know, Dr Gladys McGarey
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Catch up with The Shift Bookclub Live with Jean Kwok
The author of The Leftover Woman talks being an immigrant, motherhood, unexpected divorce and the price of beauty
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What's got my attention this week #26
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How I became a person who doesn't drink
For a Gen-Xer who's drunk since their mid-teens, party season without alcohol is a daunting prospect
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What's got my attention this week #25
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