Sitemap - 2025 - The Shift With Sam Baker
Introducing our July bookclub pick
Meet Mel Pennant, author of The Shift bookclub pick for June - LINK ENCLOSED
Things to read, watch and listen to this weekend
It's never too late to prove them wrong
'I think my sisters took a lot on the chin for me'
What's got my attention this week #104
Who benefits when we have to do everything backwards in heels?
NEW EPISODE: Molly Jong Fast on parenting your parents and losing your mother
What's got my attention this week #103
When words fail, music prevails
NEW EPISODE: Jo Hamilton – the Post Office scandal stole 20 years of my life
What's got my attention this week #102
Catch up with Jessica Stanley at The Shift bookclub live
Introducing our June bookclub pick
NEW EPISODE: Olia Hercules – my periods stopped the day Russia invaded Ukraine
What's got my attention this week #101
30 things women over 40 want you to know
NEW EPISODE: Melissa Febos on what she learnt from a year of celibacy
What's got my attention this week #100
NEW EPISODE: Reeta Chakrabarti on growing older & bolder
What's got my attention this week #99
I wrote about my gynae hell – and whoa did you respond!
"We've turned burnout into a neat, momentary drama, but it was a slow dismantling"
NEW EPISODE: Jeanine Cummins on confidence, identity and surviving the American Dirt controversy
Catch up with Kit de Waal at The Shift bookclub live
What's got my attention this week #98
What does true visibility look like?
NEW EPISODE: Jennifer Weiner on Ozempic, ageing – and growing some boundaries!
Meet Kit de Waal at The Shift bookclub - LINK ENCLOSED
What's got my attention this week #97
Introducing our May bookclub pick
It took over two decades to get my painful periods diagnosed
What's got my attention this week #96
How I learned to love my crazy ginger hair
ARCHIVE EPISODE: Clover Stroud on grief, love, sex & sisterhood
What's got my attention this week #95
It took me ten years to realise, I am my block
What's got my attention this week #94
Catch up with Curtis Sittenfeld at The Shift Bookclub Live
"I thought it was a love affair, not a story"
Meet Curtis Sittenfeld at The Shift bookclub - Link enclosed
Introducing our April bookclub pick
What's got my attention this week #93
"How many women's stories are not being told because they have been warned against it?"
ARCHIVE EPISODE: Maggie Smith on her midlife reappearing act
What's got my attention this week #92
Why do some marriages last, when others don't?
NEW EPISODE: Lorraine Kelly on menopause, misogyny, toxic men on the TV, Botox and grannyhood
What's got my attention this week #91
NEW EPISODE: Jenni Fagan on making it to 46 when no-one thought she'd see 16
What's got my attention this week #90
Is this the antidote to 'quick fix' culture?
NEW EPISODE: Ione Skye on fame, ageing, divorce and coming into her own at 50
Catch up with Jojo Moyes at The Shift Bookclub Live
What's got my attention this week #89
Two old(er) women drinking coffee
NEW EPISODE: Olympian Denise Lewis on reinvention and adapting to a big life shift
Introducing Curtis Sittenfeld's Show Don't Tell
What's got my attention this week #88
What to read when absolutely nothing goes in
NEW EPISODE: Dr Liz O'Riordan – when breast cancer surgeon becomes breast cancer patient
What's got my attention this week #87
NEW EPISODE: Martha Beck on creativity, anxiety & finding your life's purpose
What's got my attention this week #86
NEW EPISODE: Diana Evans on ageing, expectation & turning 50 without her twin
What's got my attention this week #85
Gen X women are having all the sex!
What's got my attention this week #84
On the madness and possibility of midlife
Remembering Marianne Faithfull*, but not as she actually was
What's got my attention this week #83
Catch up with our January The Shift Bookclub(s) LIVE
What's got my attention this week #82
Conversations with women (over 40): Lindsay Nicholson, 69
January Bookclub(s) Live - chat and links
What's got my attention this week #81
What's got my attention this week #80
What Demi Moore's Golden Globes win really tells us about success as an older woman