Marisa Goudy

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling

Society EN ↓ 131 episodes

On KnotWork, we explore the mythology and folklore of Ireland, and beyond. Episodes begin with a story, followed by a deep dive conversation about how this age-old tale still resonates today. Our guests include oral storytellers, writers, artists, musicians, and spiritual leaders. Occasionally, in our Myth Workers and Culture Makers series, our guest offers a song, a meditation, or another bit of creative magic. We talk about what it means to live a myth-inspired life. These conversations explore our relationship to land and to identity, particularly related to what it means to be Irish and a...

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Marisa Goudy

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Torn Between Two Worlds with Erica O'Reilly | S6 Ep28 14.08.2025 47:40

Write with Us this September The Writers’ Knot is welcoming new members! This is the global creative community where where the mythic imagination meets creative expression. Registration is now open and due to the intimate nature of this community, space is extremely limited:  www.marisagoudy.com/writers-knot-community Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Yo...

The Art of Arrival: A Modern Irish Immram | S6 Ep 27 07.08.2025 49:07

Lughnasa: Harvest, Sacrifice, Celebration | Ep6 S26 30.07.2025 30:48

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine Write with Us this September The Writers’ Knot is welcoming new members! This is the global creative community where where the mythic imagination meets creative expression. Registration is now o...

The Descent of Inanna, with Pearl Gregor | S6 Ep25 23.07.2025 50:37

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine Write with Marisa this September The Writers’ Knot is welcoming new members! This is the global creative community where where the mythic imagination meets creative expression. Registration is n...

Bright And Obscure: Stories of the Irish Goddess Áine with Jen Murphy | S6 Ep24 16.07.2025 49:20

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine Write with Marisa this September The Writers’ Knot is welcoming new members! This is the global creative community where where the mythic imagination meets creative expression. Registration is n...

The Man Without a Story by Michael Newton | S6 Ep23 09.07.2025 49:15

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine Write with Marisa this September The Writers’ Knot is welcoming new members! This is the global creative community where where the mythic imagination meets creative expression. Registration is n...

S6 Ep22: Extraordinary Everyday Culture Work with Tad Hargrave 02.07.2025 57:22

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. Words Are Magic IN THIS EPISODE As part of our Myth Workers and Culture Makers series, the writer behind the On Culture Work Substack newsletter, Tad Hargrave offers stories and observations ab...

The World Below: Song & Conversation with Katy Hellman | Ep6 S21 25.06.2025 43:43

Explore your own mythic landscape… Join us for our summertime writers’ retreat on June 25th!  During a three hour online retreat, we’ll explore a series of imaginal landscapes that help to illuminate and reframe your own relationship to your creativity and to your voice. You can expect a guided journey, a lot of time to write, and chances to dive into conversation with other myth-minded parti...

S6 Ep 20 From Erosion to Regeneration: To Cessair Sang the Sea | S6 Ep20 20.06.2025 23:20

S6 Ep 19 From Lochlann to Éire: A Cailleach Story from the Outer Hebrides 11.06.2025 59:14

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. With your paid subscription, you'll be invited to our next mythically inspired online writing retreat on June 25! Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine OUR STORY This tale from the Outer Hebrides weaves together an unjust king, a so...

Gemini Mythologies | S6 Ep18 05.06.2025 22:30

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. With your paid subscription, you'll be invited to our next mythically inspired online writing retreat on June 25! Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine OUR STORY It’s Gemini Season. And Marisa, your host, is a quintessential Gemini....

The Theft of the Golden Apple featuring Stephanie MacKay | S6 Ep17 28.05.2025 57:00

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. With your paid subscription, you'll be invited to our next mythically inspired online writing retreat on June 25! Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine OUR STORY A magical tree grows apples that assure the fertility of the community...

Stepping Off the Path, a story by Katrice Horsley | S6 Ep16 21.05.2025 1:00:40

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution (via Substack) helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. With your paid subscription, you'll be invited to our next mythically inspired online writing retreat on June 25! Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine OUR STORY Think you know the story of Little Red Riding Hood? Thi...

A Mythic Journey Through Wicklow & Kildare with Rónán Ó Raghallaigh | S6 Ep15 14.05.2025 1:02:42

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution (via Substack) helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. With your paid subscription, you'll be invited to our next mythically inspired online writing retreat on June 25! Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine OUR STORY As part of our Myth Workers and Culture Makers series,...

The Coldest Day in May by Erica O'Reilly | S6 Ep14 07.05.2025 15:23

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution (via Substack) helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. With your paid subscription, you'll be invited to our next mythically inspired online writing retreat on June 25! Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine Our Story What if the first day of summer arrived with the icy gr...

The Goddesses Who Welcomed the Winds of Change | S6 Ep 13 30.04.2025 22:45

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution (via Substack) helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. With your paid subscription, you'll be invited to our next members only Myth Workers' Salon on May 4 at 11 AM ET (via Zoom). Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. OUR STORY On the eve of the festival of Bealtaine (Be...

The Wooing of Etain, told by Amanda Verdery | S6 Ep12 23.04.2025 54:40

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution (via Substack) helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. With your paid subscription, you'll be invited to our next members only Myth Workers' Salon on May 4 at 11 AM ET (via Zoom). Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. OUR STORY The tale of Etain and Midir is one of the g...

Her Right to Privacy: A Story of Macha | S6 Ep11 09.04.2025 32:00

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution (via Substack) helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. With your paid subscription, you'll be invited to our next members only Myth Workers' Salon happening on Zoom on May 4 at 11 AM ET. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. OUR STORY This is the story of Macha, a goddes...

The Children of Lir, Told by Ellen O'Malley Dunlop | S6 Ep10 02.04.2025 49:30

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution (via Substack) helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. With your paid subscription, you'll be invited to our next members only Myth Workers' Salon. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. OUR STORY The old myth is well known: King Lir’s four children are turned into swans...

A Woman’s Quest for Knowledge: Boan’s Tears by Ali Isaac | S6 Ep9 26.03.2025 43:00

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution (via Substack) helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. With your paid subscription, you'll be invited to our next members only Myth Workers' Salon. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. OUR STORY The Irish goddess Boan has a sacred thirst for knowledge, and she is ready...

Invocation of the Rebel Ma by Saoirse Connolly | S6 Ep8 19.03.2025 43:22

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution (via Substack) helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. With your paid subscription, you'll be invited to our next members only Myth Workers' Salon. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. OUR STORY This week, another episode in our Myth Workers & Culture Makers series...

Myths Are a Blueprint for Balance, A Cailleach Story for the Spring Equinox by Nicole Marie | S6 Ep7 12.03.2025 49:07

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution (via Substack) helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. Get the stories behind each episode and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. OUR STORY In time for the spring equinox, a story of the gods and goddess of Ireland, Tuatha De Danann and...

She Will Be Heard, Sheela Will Be Heard | S6 Ep6 05.03.2025 35:10

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution (via Substack) helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. Get the stories behind each episode and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. OUR STORY Did Saint Patrick have a wife? Irish folklore of the 18th and 19th centuries declared he did. Sh...

Stars, Stones, and Shadows: A Heroine's Tale | S6 Ep 5 26.02.2025 1:01:20

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution (via Substack) helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. Get the stories behind each episode and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. OUR STORY Saoirse has lost everything except for her dog, Bear. As they wander through The Burren of Count...

Bid the Unbiddable, a Story by Fiona Doris | S6 Ep4 19.02.2025 53:20

OUR STORY The story of a wild and wonderful girl named Bid, who was born of a long, powerful line of Brigids. Love, loss, and magic all woven together that becomes a song of Ireland itself.  Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution (via Substack) helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. Get the stories behind each...