#335 Sam Baker: On Finding Yourself After 40
Ctrl Alt Delete
emma gannon
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🗓️ 1 June 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Welcome back to Ctrl Alt Delete! My guest today is Sam Baker: journalist, broadcaster, author and former Editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan and Red magazine in the UK. She has written for countless publications and co-founded The Pool. Sam has also judged the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel award and the British Book Awards. In this episode we are discussing her brilliant book The Shift: How I (lost and) found myself after 40 – and you can too (out now in paperback) for any woman staring the second half of their lives in the face and wondering, what the hell is going on? I really enjoyed reading it as Sam peels back the layers on her own life, tackles topics such as perimenopause, sexism and ageism as well as interviewing other brilliant women over 40. She also has a fabulous podcast called The Shift on life over 40 with guests like Phillippa Perry, Emma Freud and Jojo Moyes. Hope you enjoy this conversation! I loved it.
Buy your copy of The Shift here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9781529329780
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| 0:58.0 | Hello and welcome back to Control or Delete. My guest today is Sound Baker, journalist, |
| 1:02.8 | broadcaster, and author, as well as former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan and Red magazine in the UK. |
| 1:09.2 | She is written for countless publications and co-founded The Pool. |
| 1:13.0 | Sam has also judged the women's prize for fiction, the Cost and Novel Award, and the British Book |
| 1:17.4 | Awards. And in this episode we are discussing her brilliant book The Shift, How I Lost and Found |
| 1:22.8 | Myself after 40, and you can too. It's out in paperback now, and I really love this book. |
| 1:28.8 | It's for any woman staring the second half of their lives in the face and wondering what the hell |
| 1:33.4 | is going on. Even though I'm not over 40, I just found it really honest and raw, poignant, |
| 1:39.3 | and just fascinating to read about the stuff that we're not really told as women. |
| 1:44.0 | I really enjoyed it, and Sam peels back the layers on her own life, tackles topics such as |
| 1:48.8 | Perry Menopause, Sexism and Ageism, as well as interviewing loads of other women over 40 in |
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