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The Long Way Round is a weekly conversation about the detours that shape meaningful work.

Each episode, Maya Ellison talks with a maker, designer, writer or late bloomer about how they found their way: the false starts, the lucky breaks and the quiet decisions nobody saw.

The show is independent and listener supported. There are no ads in the middle of a conversation, and there never will be.

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S2 · E848 min

Starting over at forty

Theo Marsh returns for the rest of the story: leaving the law, giving the money back for his first chair, and starting on a Sunday.

S2 · E746 min

The sound of a room

Acoustic designer Ines Okafor on why some rooms feel calm and others exhausting, and how a rug and a bookshelf can change your home.

Bonus · S2 · E633 min

Forty hives and a laptop

A bonus conversation with Sol Bergman, who left payment software for beekeeping and still writes code, mostly for the bees.

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