{"id":108,"date":"2026-09-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.agilethemes.com\/overtone\/?p=108"},"modified":"2026-09-08T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T09:00:00","slug":"starting-over-at-forty","status":"publish","type":"episode","link":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/episodes\/starting-over-at-forty\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting over at forty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Theo Marsh comes back to tell us what happened next: the Sunday he decided, the first chair he sold (and refunded), and his advice for anyone who feels restless but scared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In this episode<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Sunday that changed everything<\/li><li>Why he gave the money back for his first chair<\/li><li>Start small, and start on a Sunday<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You don\u2019t have to burn the boats. You just have to build one.<\/p>\n<cite>Theo Marsh<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mentioned in the show<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/example.com\/\">Theo\u2019s workshop<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/example.com\/\">Working, by Studs Terkel<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/example.com\/\">Episode 2: The slow apprenticeship<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Long Way Round is listener supported. If this episode meant something to you, <a href=\"https:\/\/example.com\/members\">become a member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_overtone_audio_url":"\/wp-content\/plugins\/overtone-podcast\/assets\/demo\/placeholder-silence.m4a","_overtone_audio_id":0,"_overtone_duration":"47:50","_overtone_file_size":212544,"_overtone_mime":"audio\/mp4","_overtone_episode":8,"_overtone_season":2,"_overtone_type":"full","_overtone_explicit":false,"_overtone_chapters":"0:00 Welcome back, Theo\n9:00 The Sunday stool\n24:20 The refunded chair\n38:20 Restless but scared","_overtone_transcript":"[0:00] Maya: Theo, last time you left us at the workshop door. What happened next?\n[0:07] Theo: I built a stool for my daughter one Sunday. Badly. And I realised I hadn\u2019t looked at a clock for six hours.\n[9:00] Theo: That was the first time in fifteen years that I\u2019d lost track of time doing something. That was the signal.\n[24:20] Theo: My first paying customer sat in the chair and it creaked. I gave her the money back and made her another one.\n[38:20] Maya: What would you say to someone who feels restless but scared?\n[38:25] Theo: You don\u2019t have to burn the boats. You just have to build one. Start on a Sunday.","_overtone_video_url":"","footnotes":""},"guest":[3],"topic":[12,9],"class_list":["post-108","episode","type-episode","status-publish","hentry","guest-theo-marsh","topic-career-change","topic-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episode\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episode"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/episode"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episode\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"guest","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/guest?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}