The Shift With Sam Baker
sam baker, Daisy Buchanan, Kim Willis, Monique RoffeyWomen 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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Journalist, broadcaster, author. Creator of The Shift with Sam Baker podcast and substack. Endlessly banging the drum for women in midlife and beyond.
I'm the founder of the Creative Confidence Clinic, providing support for writers. Books include INSATIABLE, CAREERING, LIMELIGHT, PITY PARTY, READ YOURSELF HAPPY ! I host chart topping lit podcast You're Booked. ALL GROWN UP coming soon
Wild feminist on the edge of old mythology and new imagining. Author of No Fair Maidens - A Wild Journey With The Lost Goddesses Of Britain (Doubleday, Penguin Random House, 2026)
Trini-Londoner, Buddhist, cat guardian, Costa Book of the Year, 2020, The Mermaid of Black Conch. Latest book, Passiontide. Activist with Hard Art, co-organiser Hey! festivals, Professor of Contemporary Fiction, MMU. Dragonfly out with Cape, 2027.
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