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What my top 5 pieces tell us about midlife women right now
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Welcome to The Shift: join 20,000+ like-minded women
Whether you're entering midlife, slap bang in the middle of it or out the other side, come on in
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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.
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The picture that prompted a life change
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All* of my friends are ending their marriages
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Why do some marriages last, when others don't?
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"Women of a certain age" are full of rage and sick of everyone's shit
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“Men are afraid women will laugh at them, women are afraid men will kill them”
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When do you stop being two people?
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Marian Keyes: 'I am not afraid. I can't be reduced to a mute, shame-filled ball of nothing by a snarky look or an unpleasant word. That's a…
Five years on from the very first episode of The Shift podcast, we're revisiting a groundbreaking conversation that smashed open the door on menopause…
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NEW EPISODE: Charlotte Mendelson – middle-aged women are entitled to want more
"There's the oestrogen cliff and there's perimenopausal horniness and it's just chaos. A brilliant time of chaos."
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NEW EPISODE: The wisdom of Betsy Lerner
From learning to live with bipolar disorder to storming TikTok in her 60s, this woman is a WOW
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The Shift With Sam Baker
The Shift With Sam Baker
Women don't vanish after 40. Who knew?! Amplifying and celebrating the voices of women in midlife and beyond by the former editor of Red, Cosmopolitan (and Just 17!)
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