Salena Godden on why 40-plus is where the party is
The Shift with Sam Baker
Sam Baker Ltd
4.8 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus. |
| 0:04.5 | We're having a baby. |
| 0:05.5 | We're having a baby. |
| 0:07.2 | I've always wanted to be mom. |
| 0:09.4 | And we're bringing you on our journey through everything. |
| 0:12.4 | I have no idea what we're doing. |
| 0:13.6 | Thank you. I have more of an idea. |
| 0:15.6 | I think of it like a Tamagocchi. |
| 0:17.8 | At the end of all of this... |
| 0:20.0 | We're going to have a little baby. |
| 0:21.8 | Raising Chelsea, a Hulu original series streaming exclusively on Disney Plus. |
| 0:27.3 | 18 plus subscription required T's and T supply. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello and welcome to The Shift, the podcast that aims to tell the no-holds-barred truth about being a woman post-40, created and hosted by me, journalist and author Sam Baker. |
| 0:45.6 | Today I'm chatting to acclaimed poet, author and activist Selina Godden. |
| 0:50.3 | Now in her late 40s, Selena has been writing and performing since 1994, when she moved to London seeking the bright lights and never looked back. |
| 0:58.9 | In her evocative debut novel, Mrs. Death, Mrs. Death, the self-confessed dreamer brings death to life as a middle-aged black woman, |
| 1:06.3 | and combines prose, poetry and non-fiction to tell the stories of the invisible women society prefers to |
| 1:12.1 | ignore. Anyone that's worried about turning 40, I say hurry up and get here, this is where the |
| 1:17.4 | party is. This is the good place. Over the next half hour, the woman once described as everything |
| 1:23.3 | the Daily Mail is terrified of, talks about not being here for babies, and how glad is she |
| 1:28.6 | that she'll never be asked that question again? Being in the midst of all the weather, |
| 1:33.5 | why she thinks menopause has returned to the magic of childhood, and why 40 plus is where the party is. |
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