Marisa Goudy

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling

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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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Maggie’s Doll by Dee Mulrooney | S6 Ep3 12.02.2025 58:20

Write with us! Join the  Authors’ Knot Program Marisa is leading an intimate 10-month online writing program for thought leaders, memoirists, and heart-led visionaries working on a book or another “big project.” There are just two seats left! Registration closes February 10, 2025.  Learn more about the Authors’ Knot. OUR STORY Dee Mulrooney tells an original story based on her own mother...

The Invitation: Song and Conversation with Amano | S6 Ep 2 05.02.2025 55:30

Write with us! Join the  Authors’ Knot Program Marisa is leading an intimate 10-month online writing program for thought leaders, memoirists, and heart-led visionaries working on a book or another “big project.” There are just two seats left! Registration closes February 10, 2025. Learn more about the Authors’ Knot. THIS EPISODE In this Myth Workers and Culture Makers episode, we begin with a...

Brigid’s Cloak of Light with Treacy O’Connor | S6 Ep1 29.01.2025 51:50

Write with us! Join the Authors’ Knot Program Marisa is leading an intimate 10-month online writing program for thought leaders, memoirists, and heart-led visionaries working on a book or another “big project.” There are just two seats left! Registration closes February 10, 2025. OUR JOURNEY The season opens with an episode from our Myth Workers & Culture Makers series. Rather than telling a s...

Best of KnotWork ~ Brigid: Rebirth of the Mother by Laura Murphy | S5 Ep20 22.01.2025 1:01:20

Join One of Our Group Writing Programs in 2025! The Authors’ Knot Program, February - November 2025 An intimate 10-month online writing program for thought leaders, memoirists, and heart-led visionaries working on a book or another “big project.” The Writers’ Knot Community, January - June 2025 A creativity incubator for writers seeking camaraderie and connection. Mythic imagination meets cre...

When Tides Rise, Build Your Own Boat: Cessair’s Arrival in Ireland | S5 Ep19 15.01.2025 54:19

Best of KnotWork: A Sacred Detour to Iona with Royce Fitts | S5 Ep18 08.01.2025 53:40

Twelve Rays of Solstice | S5 Ep17 18.12.2024 33:50

Our Story Marisa invites you to explore the lore of the Cailleach, the winter solstice at Newgrange, and the work of the Irish mystic philosopher John Moriarty. Plus: a new oracular practice to welcome 2025, the Twelve Rays of Solstice. 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. Ge...

A Storyteller, A Story Listener with Rab Fulton | S5 Ep16 20.11.2024 59:35

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. Get the stories behind each episode and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. OUR STORY Rab Fulton brings us “a healing story” with its roots in 19th century Ireland. A stranger comes to northern Gal...

The Cailleach Weaving Through Our Bones, Song & Conversation with Sionnáin | S5 Ep 15 31.10.2024 48:30

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. Get the stories behind each episode and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. IN THIS EPISODE In this episode, Irish songcarrier Sionnáin offers an ode to the Cailleach called “The Wise One.” This is...

Aodh Ó Riagáin | S5 Ep14 | Myth Workers and Culture Makers Series 03.10.2024 44:36

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. Find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. OUR CONVERSATION We express ourselves through mythic concepts and symbols, all the...

Remembering a Goddess, Three Years On | S5 Ep13 20.09.2024 39:00

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. Find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Marisa returns to the story of the Irish sovereignty goddess Mongfind, w...

A Story About Getting Unstoried | S5 Ep12 04.09.2024 18:16

Calling All Writers & Creatives: Join our global writing community! Enrollment in the Writers’ Knot is now open:  marisagoudy.com/writers-knot-community Want to talk about whether the group is a good match? Let's set up a quick call. Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show togeth...

Molly's Story by Erica O'Reilly | S5 Ep11 21.08.2024 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. Find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. OUR STORY The song about Molly Malone and her cockles and mussels is heard in Iris...

Language, Idea, Metaphor, Myth: Poetry by Adam Wyeth | S5 Ep10 07.08.2024 47:03

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. Find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. OUR STORY We find our way into the mythic imagination and Irish mythology through...

A Mother’s Love, A Mother’s Sacrifice: Tailtiu and Lugh | S5 Ep9 24.07.2024 31:36

Calling All Writers & Creatives Join us on August 1 for HARVEST: An Online Lughnasa Retreat for Writers and Creatives:  marisagoudy.com/lughnasa-writers-retreat Join our global writing community! Enrollment in the Writers’ Knot is now open:  marisagoudy.com/writers-knot-community Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution help...

A Story Waiting to Be Untangled: Our Lady, Undoer of Knots | S5 Ep 8 10.07.2024 23:24

Calling All Writers & Creatives Join us on August 1 for HARVEST: An Online Lughnasa Retreat for Writers and Creatives:  marisagoudy.com/lughnasa-writers-retreat Join our global writing community! Enrollment in the Writers’ Knot is now open: marisagoudy.com/writers-knot-community Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution helps me p...

Magic Illuminates the Mundane: a story of Flidais by Regina de Búrca | S5 Ep7 26.06.2024 59:37

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. Find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. Calling All Writers & Creatives: Reweave Your Own Myths Join us on August 1 fo...

The Inheritance of the Not-Chosen People, a story of Cessair by Sandy Dunlop | S5 Ep6 12.06.2024 46:20

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. Find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. Calling All Writers & Creative: Reweave Your Own Myths Join us on August 1 for...

Being Human Is a Habit that Can be Broken: A Story of Mannanán by Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue | S5 Ep5 29.05.2024 58:55

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. Find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. Calling All Writers & Creative: Reweave Your Own Myths Join us on August 1 for...

Bardic Return: Poems by Aisling Fraser | S5 Ep 4 15.05.2024 1:00:40

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. Find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. Calling All Writers & Creative: Reweave Your Own Myths Join us on August 1 for...

The Coming of the Sons of Mil, a story by Brian Walsh | S5 Ep3 01.05.2024 1:03:44

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. Find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. Reweave Your Own Myths Join us on August 1 for HARVEST: An Online Lughnasa Retreat...

Achtan: A Brave Mother’s Tale, featuring Karina Tynan | S5 Ep2 17.04.2024 58:37

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. Find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Meet Achtan, a druid’s daughter and mother of a future king, Cormac,&nbs...

Patrick + Sheelah Forever (Maybe) | S5 Ep1 14.03.2024 51:21

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. Find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our on our Substack newsletter Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Did Saint Patrick have a wife? Irish folklore of th...

Take Back the Magic with Perdita Finn | S4 Ep12 20.12.2023 36:24

Write With Us in 2024 Do you want to write your own memoir or simply make more space for self-expression in the new year? Join Marisa in the Writers' Knot, our online writing community. 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. Find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-o...

My Life As a Prayer with Elizabeth Cunningham | S4 Ep11 13.12.2023 42:46

Write With Us in 2024 Do you want to write your own memoir or simply make more space for self-expression in the new year? Join Marisa in the Writers' Knot, our online writing community. Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons  on our...