Sitemap - 2023 - The Shift With Sam Baker

What you might have missed on The Shift this year

January Bookclub reveal

What's got my attention this week #30

Catch up with Nina Stibbe on The Shift Bookclub Live

All your gift giving problems solved

What's got my attention this week #29

What you might have missed in November

What's got my attention this week #28

If they can see us, they can fleece us

What's got my attention this week #27

What I learnt from talking to a 102-year-old woman

Catch up with The Shift Bookclub Live with Jean Kwok

What's got my attention this week #26

How I became a person who doesn't drink

What's got my attention this week #25

The books that moved me in 2023

November bookclub reveal – and it's a smasher!

What's got my attention this week #24

When your job is your identity, what's left when you leave it?

What's got my attention this week #23

Maggie Smith and the belated lure of the much older woman

October Bookclub reveal

What's got my attention this week #22

"Every part of my body hurt"

What's got my attention this week #21

50something woman leaves the house without makeup shocker!

What's got my attention this week #20

Rediscovering my creativity in midlife

What's got my attention this week #19

I've been trying to write about Russell Brand, but I can't

What's got my attention this week #18

Learning to give it 85%

September Bookclub reveal

Catch up with The Shift Bookclub Live with Anna Funder

What's got my attention this week #17

Woody Allen thinks cancel culture is “silly”

How are you getting on with Wifedom?

What's got my attention this week #17

There's a time and a place for Main Character Energy

What's got my attention this week #16

Learning to grow, minding your wellness & why midlife women feel like screaming

What's got my attention this week #15

Catch up with The Shift Bookclub Live

Conversations with women (over 40): Anna Murphy

What's got my attention this week #14

I've succumbed to a midlife piercing

August bookclub reveal

What's got my attention this week #13

Is this really what 50something looks like?

What you might have missed in July

Conversations with women (over 40): Barbara Kingsolver

What's got my attention this week #12

For daws to peck at

I feel bad about my chin

What's got my attention this week #11

Examining my (unhealthy) obsession with true crime

Catch up with The Shift Bookclub Live

What's got my attention this week #10

Feel like your wardrobe hates you?

July bookclub reveal

What's got my attention this week #9

Are you a success-aholic?

What you might have missed in June

What's got my attention this week #8

Attack of the 50something women

Conversations with women (over 40): Abi Morgan

What's got my attention this week #7

June bookclub reveal

Best summer books 2023

Catch up with The Shift Bookclub Live

What's got my attention this week #6

Walking and talking

What's got my attention this week #5

The curse of f*ckability

Change of date bookclubbers!

Come and say hi, I'd love to know a bit more about you

What's got my attention this week #4

Is it a podcast? Is it a newsletter? Is it a community?

What's got my attention this week #3

The constant pain that dominated my pre-menopause life

What's got my attention this week #2

Empowering or exhausting?

May bookclub reveal

What's got my attention this week #1

We owe a huge debt to E. Jean Carroll

Conversations with women (over 40): Katherine May

What is a scary woman?

"You're old, you sag, get over it!"

Not a morning person

11 books I'm excited to read this Spring

What I've learnt from thirty years of marriage

On learning to grow

Midlife women feel like screaming

As a 48-year-old brown woman, I’ve been invisible as long as I can remember

The endless pillorying of Madonna

Struggling with perimenopause?

Could you buy just 5 new items of clothing this year?

Has Hollywood finally realised women don't vanish at 40?

My new year's resolution? No more trying