Conversations with women (over 40)

NEW EPISODE: Olympian Denise Lewis on reinvention and adapting to a big life shift

"We need to change the Fs for ourselves. It's not fuck 50. It's 50 can be fabulous."

Mar 11 •

1:18

NEW EPISODE: Dr Liz O'Riordan – when breast cancer surgeon becomes breast cancer patient

"As a doctor I told my patients they'd get instant menopause, I never told them how to treat it."

Mar 4 •

1:01

NEW EPISODE: Martha Beck on creativity, anxiety & finding your life's purpose

"I literally spent my first 30 years hoping I didn't wake up, and then another 30 waking up and doing everything possible to manage my incredibly high…

Feb 25 •

0:37

"If you feel like you're blowing up your life, ask yourself if the opposite is true. Maybe you're bringing your real life into being for the…

A perspective-shifting conversation on beating anxiety and the power of creativity and community, with life coach and self-help legend, Martha Beck

Feb 20 •

NEW EPISODE: Diana Evans on ageing, expectation & turning 50 without her twin

"Menopause is our ticket to freedom... our body is our own again, like it was in the beginning."

Feb 19 •

1:01

On the madness and possibility of midlife

A recording from Sam Baker and Clover Stroud's live video

Feb 6 •

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Conversations with women (over 40): Lindsay Nicholson, 69

"My magazine editor persona was armour from the turmoil and the grief inside of me."

Jan 23 •

Top 10 podcast episodes of the year

The Shift's most-listened of 2024 contains some surprises

Dec 27, 2024 •

Role models and the older woman

What a conversation with my teenage hero Neneh Cherry taught me about the need to see what we can be

Dec 12, 2024 •

BONUS EPISODE: Neneh Cherry on love, loss and legacy

"The idea that you're meant to be done because you're 60 makes me want to start a riot"

Dec 10, 2024 •

0:43

New episode: Bella Freud on ageing, letting go of chaos and fashion neurosis

"I've definitely become more daring with age."

Dec 3, 2024 •

0:41

New episode: Donna Ashworth on ageing, eating disorders and finding her calling in midlife

"I don't care for man-made when it comes to the timeline of my life."

Nov 26, 2024 •

0:30

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