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 ex ...
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Gather Round the Fire with the Women and the Rabble | S6 Ep 33
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27:19Please 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 S6 Ep 33 We continue to celebrate Samhain season on the podcast with a story of an Irish goddess and queen who was eventually k…
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Through the Samhain Portal with Robert Mulhall | S6 Ep 32
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43:16Please 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 Samhain: the Celtic festival when the veil between the worlds is thin. It's the last harvest of the old year, the start of the …
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Digging Deeper Than Mythology Can Take Us | S6 Ep31
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17:20Last Call! 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 S…
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Silver Branch Perception: The Voyage of Bran | S6 Ep30
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33:20Write 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 u…
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Achtan: A Brave Mother’s Tale, featuring Karina Tynan | S6 Ep29
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Torn Between Two Worlds with Erica O'Reilly | S6 Ep28
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47:40Write 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 u…
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The Art of Arrival: A Modern Irish Immram | S6 Ep 27
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49:07Write 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 u…
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Lughnasa: Harvest, Sacrifice, Celebration | Ep6 S26
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30:48Please 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 imaginatio…
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The Descent of Inanna, with Pearl Gregor | S6 Ep25
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50:37Please 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 imagin…
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Bright And Obscure: Stories of the Irish Goddess Áine with Jen Murphy | S6 Ep24
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The Man Without a Story by Michael Newton | S6 Ep23
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S6 Ep22: Extraordinary Everyday Culture Work with Tad Hargrave
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57:22Please 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 newslette…
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The World Below: Song & Conversation with Katy Hellman | Ep6 S21
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43:43Explore 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 in…
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S6 Ep 20 From Erosion to Regeneration: To Cessair Sang the Sea | S6 Ep20
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23:20Explore 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 in…
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S6 Ep 19 From Lochlann to Éire: A Cailleach Story from the Outer Hebrides
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59:14Please 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 O…
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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. …
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The Theft of the Golden Apple featuring Stephanie MacKay | S6 Ep17
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57:00Please 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…
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Stepping Off the Path, a story by Katrice Horsley | S6 Ep16
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1:00:40Please 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…
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A Mythic Journey Through Wicklow & Kildare with Rónán Ó Raghallaigh | S6 Ep15
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The Coldest Day in May by Erica O'Reilly | S6 Ep14
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The Goddesses Who Welcomed the Winds of Change | S6 Ep 13
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The Wooing of Etain, told by Amanda Verdery | S6 Ep12
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Her Right to Privacy: A Story of Macha | S6 Ep11
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32:00Please 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 Medici…
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The Children of Lir, Told by Ellen O'Malley Dunlop | S6 Ep10
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49:30Please 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 know…
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A Woman’s Quest for Knowledge: Boan’s Tears by Ali Isaac | S6 Ep9
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43:00Please 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 ha…
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Invocation of the Rebel Ma by Saoirse Connolly | S6 Ep8
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43:22Please 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 episod…
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Myths Are a Blueprint for Balance, A Cailleach Story for the Spring Equinox by Nicole Marie | S6 Ep7
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She Will Be Heard, Sheela Will Be Heard | S6 Ep6
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Stars, Stones, and Shadows: A Heroine's Tale | S6 Ep 5
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1:01:20Please 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…
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Bid the Unbiddable, a Story by Fiona Doris | S6 Ep4
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53:20OUR 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…
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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 …
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The Invitation: Song and Conversation with Amano | S6 Ep 2
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55:30Write 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…
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Brigid’s Cloak of Light with Treacy O’Connor | S6 Ep1
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51:50Write 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 & …
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Best of KnotWork ~ Brigid: Rebirth of the Mother by Laura Murphy | S5 Ep20
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1:01:20Join 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…
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When Tides Rise, Build Your Own Boat: Cessair’s Arrival in Ireland | S5 Ep19
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Best of KnotWork: A Sacred Detour to Iona with Royce Fitts | S5 Ep18
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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…
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A Storyteller, A Story Listener with Rab Fulton | S5 Ep16
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The Cailleach Weaving Through Our Bones, Song & Conversation with Sionnáin | S5 Ep 15
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48:30Please 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 o…
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Aodh Ó Riagáin | S5 Ep14 | Myth Workers and Culture Makers Series
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Remembering a Goddess, Three Years On | S5 Ep13
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39:00Please 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 …
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A Story About Getting Unstoried | S5 Ep12
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18:16Calling 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…
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Molly's Story by Erica O'Reilly | S5 Ep11
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59:14Please 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 M…
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Language, Idea, Metaphor, Myth: Poetry by Adam Wyeth | S5 Ep10
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47:03Please 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 t…
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A Mother’s Love, A Mother’s Sacrifice: Tailtiu and Lugh | S5 Ep9
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31:36Calling 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…
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A Story Waiting to Be Untangled: Our Lady, Undoer of Knots | S5 Ep 8
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23:24Calling 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…
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Magic Illuminates the Mundane: a story of Flidais by Regina de Búrca | S5 Ep7
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The Inheritance of the Not-Chosen People, a story of Cessair by Sandy Dunlop | S5 Ep6
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Being Human Is a Habit that Can be Broken: A Story of Mannanán by Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue | S5 Ep5
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Bardic Return: Poems by Aisling Fraser | S5 Ep 4
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