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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 member of the Irish diaspora. Whether you’re drawn to Celtic culture or the mysteries that linger at ancient sacred sites, or whether you just like a good story and expansive conversation, you’re in the right place. Welcome. Fáilte. Your host is Marisa Goudy, author of The Sovereignty Knot: A Woman’s Way to Freedom, Power, Love, and Magic. She is a myth worker, a story healer, a writing coach who lives on the lands of the Lenape people (New York’s Hudson Valley). She holds an MA in Irish literature from University College Dublin.
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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 member of the Irish diaspora. Whether you’re drawn to Celtic culture or the mysteries that linger at ancient sacred sites, or whether you just like a good story and expansive conversation, you’re in the right place. Welcome. Fáilte. Your host is Marisa Goudy, author of The Sovereignty Knot: A Woman’s Way to Freedom, Power, Love, and Magic. She is a myth worker, a story healer, a writing coach who lives on the lands of the Lenape people (New York’s Hudson Valley). She holds an MA in Irish literature from University College Dublin.
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1 Maggie’s Doll by Dee Mulrooney | S6 Ep3 58:20
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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 original story based on her own mother’s childhood in Dublin in the late 1940s. OUR GUEST Based in Berlin, Dee Mulrooney weaves a rich tapestry of experiences, emotions, and insights into her creative practice. Rooted in the complexities of inhabiting a female body, her work emerges from the profound influences of her upbringing as a working-class Irish woman in the patriarchal, misogynistic landscape of 1970s Catholic Ireland. Her background profoundly shapes her identity and informs her artistic journey, where she fluidly navigates drawing, painting, writing, performing, filmmaking, and music. Through her alter ego, Growler—a vibrant, full-body vulva costume—she channels the voices of women past, transforming pain into powerful storytelling and performance. A nod to her ancestors. Growler embodies the spirit of resilience, connecting generations and facilitating healing. With over two decades of experience as an educator, Dee champions community and empowerment, drawing inspiration from celebrated artists and the potent power of women's narratives. OUR CONVERSATION A story about childhood based on a true story that speaks to all of us. Dee is the granddaughter of two midwives who also served as “death doulas.” Dee’s own art continues to explore these themes. Homosexuality was illegal in Ireland until 1993, and it would have been notable and even dangerous for “Uncle Billy” to come home from London with his partner in the 1940s. The pressure to have so many children “for Ireland” in de Valera’s Ireland in the midst of so much abuse and secrets. At the same time, women were coping with Infant mortality and the spectre of the Mother and Baby homes. This culture was captured in Small Things Like These, the book by Claire Keegan and the film with Cillian Murphy. Ownership and belonging in the sacred sense rather than the materialist sense Beginning in the 1930, the Irish social welfare system guaranteed a home - security of tenure - for all people, which would have transformed people’s lives, particularly for working class women. This changed within a generation, and the current housing crisis in Ireland is the worst it has ever been. Dee’s family lost their home in Dublin and she and her family emigrated to Berlin where collective housing arrangements are part of the culture. Issues of housing are connected to ancestral trauma, particularly the famine and evictions. Accepting and working with the grief that’s part of the experience diaspora. Time seems to stand still after you leave a place and the diaspora plays a vital role in preserving culture. We recorded this conversation on Nollaig na mBán, “women’s Christmas” which Dee celebrated by making a drawing for her mother-in-law based on a 1913 photograph of a young Galway woman who put on traditional garb for the picture. Something Dee brings through with her Growler work: “No one on this planet can claim ‘clean ancestry.’” We’re here to stand on the shoulders of ancestors, including the murderers and the genocidal maniacs. Music at the start of the show is by Beth Sweeney and Billy Hardy: billyandbeth.com Work With Marisa 1:1 Writing Coaching: If you are working on a spiritual memoir or wellness professional or a creative entrepreneur who wants to use stories to build your business, book a free consultation with Marisa. Learn more at writingcoachmarisa.com Learn about group writing opportunities: www.marisagoudy.com/writing-groups Find more of Marisa's writing and get a copy of her book, The Sovereignty Knot: www.marisagoudy.com Follow the show on Substack , Instagram , and Facebook .…
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1 The Invitation: Song and Conversation with Amano | S6 Ep 2 55:30
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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. THIS EPISODE In this Myth Workers and Culture Makers episode, we begin with a song. Our guest, Amano, offers “ Cuireadh Scéine (The Invitation of the Skane),” a song she wrote in response to a visit to the River Skane, a tributary of the River Boyne, in Co. Meath. OUR GUEST Amano is a songwriter, vocalist, poet, and performing artist from Killarney, Co. Kerry. She works bilingually in Irish and English to explore themes of changing identities, cultural fluidity, language(s) and animist ecologies across a range of genres including folk, pop, sean-nós, electronic and spoken word. In summer 2024 Amano released THREAD, a collaborative Irish music project with Cork-producer Kalabanx. Songs from the record including HEART (featuring Liam Ó Maonlaí) have been played on BBC Radio Ulster, RTÉ Radio 1 and Raidió na Gaeltachta. Amano has performed at festivals and venues across Ireland since returning to the music scene in 2023 including Electric Picnic, Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, and Brigid 1500 Festival. She is currently supported by the Arts Council in developing her practice in the sean-nós singing tradition. Her next solo single, Burn, is set for release on February 19, 2025. Presave the song now. Find her at: https://amanoanseo.com , and @amanoanseo on Instagram , Substack , and TikTok . OUR CONVERSATION Amano’s journey, from academia and a future career in heritage museums, back to the music and language of childhood Blas: the Irish word for taste that also relates to your connection to the language and means something like “rooted sound” Questions about whether we need to be “pure” when it comes to how we use and blend language. What gets lost in standardization, and what gets lost when we try to be too precise? Sean nós or “old way” - a phrase first used in the 1940s to refer to particular types of Irish song and dance. The desire to name things that we revere as “ancient,” and knowing when it’s appropriate and not appropriate to use that term. “Complicated normalcy” is new in Ireland. As someone with Japanese and Irish heritage, Amano speaks to the experience of children who have origins and stories that don’t comply with the “typical” Irish experience. Amano’s experience of embodying the Cailleach in a series of street performances - the way the crone goddess calls us to embrace simplicity, and into relationship with plants, animals, the elements. Seeing Brigid as “task master and the goddess of fire.” Amano sees her as the perfect figure to look to when you’re worried about how your work will be perceived. Music at the start of the show is by Beth Sweeney and Billy Hardy: billyandbeth.com Work With Marisa 1:1 Writing Coaching: If you are working on a spiritual memoir or wellness professional or a creative entrepreneur who wants to use stories to build your business, book a free consultation with Marisa. Learn more at writingcoachmarisa.com Learn about group writing opportunities: www.marisagoudy.com/writing-groups Find more of Marisa's writing and get a copy of her book, The Sovereignty Knot: www.marisagoudy.com Follow the show on Substack , Instagram , and Facebook .…
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1 Brigid’s Cloak of Light with Treacy O’Connor | S6 Ep1 51:50
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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. OUR JOURNEY The season opens with an episode from our Myth Workers & Culture Makers series. Rather than telling a story of Brigid, Treacy O’Connor takes us on a meditative journey to feel the presence of Ireland’s mother goddess and matron saint. OUR GUEST Treacy O’Connor is an ordained OneSpirit Interfaith Minister, guardian of Ireland's ancient ancestral wisdom, Mindfulness and Meditation teacher & Co-Founder and CEO of Creating Wellness. Her mission is to inspire and empower a return to right relationship with the self, others, the planet and the cosmos – connecting the dots through the passage of the heart. Treacy initiated a campaign to honour Brigid with a public holiday in Ireland which was inaugurated in 2023 and she was honoured by her local town with a Balbriggan Town Award, for illuminating the hearts and minds of the 24,000 residents with a Brigid Procession of Light in 2024. Brigid continues to inspire and surprise Treacy with invitations to be an expression for connection with her qualities, in many different ways. One of those invitations is taking the form of a 6 day retreat. Restoring the Heart of Brigid, a magical pilgrimage and retreat to be held in Ireland May 31st to June 6th 2025, will be guided by Treacy O’Connor in collaboration with Carmela Fleury and LeeYen Anderson: https://www.leeyenanderson.com/heart-of-brigid Follow Treacy on Substack , Instagram , or Facebook . OUR CONVERSATION The emergence of Brigid into the popular consciousness over the last several years, and what it means to introduce her as not only an historical figure, but as a spiritual presence. Brigid’s Day, now a national holiday in Ireland, started with a petition in 2019 and was made a reality in 2023. Treacy’s story of being called to the very diverse town of Balbriggan, or Baile Brigín - the “Village Little Brigid” and what it was like to create a festival, including an intimate fire procession at Imbolc Brigid’s connection to both fire and water. These elements temper and bring one another into balance How Brigid’s energy emerges in everyone. A story of how Maud Gonne, Irish actor and revolutionary, exemplified Brigid energy. Music at the start of the show is by Beth Sweeney and Billy Hardy: billyandbeth.com Work With Marisa 1:1 Writing Coaching: If you are working on a spiritual memoir or wellness professional or a creative entrepreneur who wants to use stories to build your business, book a free consultation with Marisa. Learn more at writingcoachmarisa.com Learn about group writing opportunities: www.marisagoudy.com/writing-groups Find more of Marisa's writing and get a copy of her book, The Sovereignty Knot: www.marisagoudy.com Follow the show on Substack , Instagram , and Facebook .…
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1 Best of KnotWork ~ Brigid: Rebirth of the Mother by Laura Murphy | S5 Ep20 1:01:20
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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 creative expression in this long-running global writing community. Our Story The goddess Brigid is known to be a daughter of Dagda, “the Good God.” But who was her mother? Laura Murphy tells her own story of Brigid’s birth at Newgrange. The child comes from the milky way, the way of her mother, the goddess Bóinn. (Laura offered us Bóinn’s story in Season 2, Episode 7 .) Our Guest Laura is a poet, activist, and healer. She is a passionate campaigner for Ireland’s Mother and Baby home survivors and other issues surrounding equality, environmental and social healing including the recent successful campaign to make Brigid’s Day a national public holiday in Ireland (February 3, 2025!) Watch the “Is Mise” Lightshow, Brigid’s Day in Kildare 2022. Follow Laura on Instagram. Our Conversation The first time Brigid is recognized with a national holiday February 1, 2023, a green comet crossed the skies Artists who are with us in the conversation, Caitlin Matthews and Dee Mulrooney. See the images on Myth Is Medicine. Power of the sacred twelve and thirteen, and yet Brigid’s sacred number is 19 (the sisters who held the sacred flame in Kildare). The significance of the cygnus constellation in this story and in Laura and Marisa’s stories Dagda: sacred masculine as midwife. Echoes of a KnotWork episode with Perdita Finn, who describes Joseph as midwife to Mary. Brigid and Mary in Celtic Christianity, which was close to the Essene tradition. Kate Chadbourne in Season 1, Episode 1 , the story of Brigid as best friend to Mary, creating a diversion with the flaming harrow on the day that Mary was nervous about being “churched” after childbirth. Imbas forosnai, the energy of creation, as well as “the inspiration that illuminates” and the power of prophecy and speaking things into creation. Music at the start of the show is by Beth Sweeney and Billy Hardy: billyandbeth.com Work With Marisa 1:1 Writing Coaching: If you are working on a spiritual memoir or wellness professional or a creative entrepreneur who wants to use stories to build your business, book a free consultation with Marisa. Learn more at writingcoachmarisa.com Learn about group writing opportunities: www.marisagoudy.com/writing-groups Find more of Marisa's writing and get a copy of her book, The Sovereignty Knot: www.marisagoudy.com Follow the show on Substack , Instagram , and Facebook .…
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1 When Tides Rise, Build Your Own Boat: Cessair’s Arrival in Ireland | S5 Ep19 54:19
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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 creative expression in this long-running global writing community. Our Story Ireland doesn’t have a creation story, but it does have Lebor Gabála Érenn, the Book of Invasions. The first "invasion" was led by Cessair, a granddaughter of Noah who took her own boat to Ireland to avoid that great Biblical flood. Our Guest Carmen Schreffler is a marketing consultant who works with purpose-driven entrepreneurs. She gives entrepreneurs the tools to cultivate rich and diverse ecosystems where they can thrive. She believes in connecting with your natural gifts—intuition, curiosity, and discernment—to guide the creation of a sustainable business that meets your needs and goals. Join Carmen on Substack for inspiration on weaving the threads of your life and business into a thriving ecosystem: https://wildpreneur.substack.com/ Instagram @carmenschreffler Our Conversation This conversation was recorded in March, 2023. What stories get told and passed on. What makes a myth “real”? Who are the “winners of culture”? Which parts of civilization, culture are we meant to rewrite and rewild? Rather than tearing down the master’s house, what if we are meant to build a new boat? Is technology, including artificial intelligence “the next flood”? What’s the source of this story? Scholars say it was conceived to further Ireland’s desire to establish Christianity and a Biblical pedigree, but the myth may have been rooted into something much older: an older goddess or memory of the floods that would have come with the end of the last ice age. The power of sharing your unique story and art and bringing it through your unique lens in this age of ChatGPT and AI, as entrepreneurs and creatives. The work of Mary Reynolds, a “recovering landscape designer,” and author of We Are the Ark . Her work of Acts of Restorative Kindness in order to live in relationship with the earth. Article in the New Yorker, The End of the English Major : liberal arts as a way into so many different ways of knowing. Carmen’s guiding principle, a quote from Yogi Amrit Desai: “We exist in perpetual creative response.” We remain open minded and open to the moment without judgment and move forward from that place. Marisa’s inventions: the reason Cessair and family were not included on the Ark and her meeting with the trinity of goddesses who gave Ireland its name: Éiru, Banba and Fódla. Music at the start of the show is by Beth Sweeney and Billy Hardy: billyandbeth.com Work With Marisa 1:1 Writing Coaching: If you are working on a spiritual memoir or wellness professional or a creative entrepreneur who wants to use stories to build your business, book a free consultation with Marisa. Learn more at writingcoachmarisa.com Learn about group writing opportunities: www.marisagoudy.com/writing-groups Find more of Marisa's writing and get a copy of her book, The Sovereignty Knot: www.marisagoudy.com Follow the show on Substack , Instagram , and Facebook .…
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1 Best of KnotWork: A Sacred Detour to Iona with Royce Fitts | S5 Ep18 53:40
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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 creative expression in this long-running global writing community. Our Story Iona. This island in the Scottish Hebrides is only three miles long, but it's home to untold spiritual, cultural, and natural magic. In this excerpt from the spiritual memoir, The Geography of the Soul, author Royce Fitts invites us to meet the wild divine feminine energies that are embodied on this sacred land. Our Guest Royce Fitts is a licensed marriage and family therapist and certified dream worker, with a doctorate in ministry. His book The Geography of the Soul: Dreams, Reality and the Journey of a Lifetime blends memoir, political and social consciousness, and spiritual wisdom and takes you to a hidden gem in the midst of the English countryside: the Ridgeway National Trail . Royce is a long-time writing coaching client. I have had the immense pleasure and privilege of walking alongside him throughout the writing process. Order Geography of the Soul from your favorite bookseller. The audiobook edition is now available. Download it now. Our Conversation This book grew out of Royce’s 2016 journey: a “conscious hike” on the Ridgeway National Trail, the oldest road in England and Europe. The role of dreams in our lives and the strange, evolutionary instinct to dream. Royce describes his relationship to the Crone of Iona and what he learned about his own masculinity while held by the sacred feminine. What is it like to embody masculine “god” energy in a healthy way? Royce invites us to have an intimate conversation with the feminine and masculine divinity within us. Royce’s lived paradox: he is a mystic, wizard, shaman in this world, but his work takes him to the heart of the US military where he is a military and family life counselor An invocation of vitality, and why it is so important to dream and to value our dreams. Music at the start of the show is by Beth Sweeney and Billy Hardy: billyandbeth.com WORK WITH MARISA 1:1 Writing Coaching: If you are working on a spiritual memoir or wellness professional or a creative entrepreneur who wants to use stories to build your business, book a free consultation with Marisa. Learn more at writingcoachmarisa.com Learn about group writing opportunities: www.marisagoudy.com/writing-groups Find more of Marisa's writing and get a copy of her book, The Sovereignty Knot: www.marisagoudy.com Follow the show on Substack , Instagram , and Facebook .…
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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 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. A special invitation for writers & creatives: Join one of Marisa’s writing groups! 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 creative expression in this long-running global writing community. In this episode: Visiting Loughcrew or Slieve na Calliagh in the midst of Storm Ashley Newgrange, and how the sun penetrates the inner chamber of the 5000 year old passage tomb Gearóid Ó Crualaoich’s Book of the Cailleach: He associates the Cailleach with “Conflict with and displacement by Christianity” John Moriarty’s Invoking Ireland Marisa’s new practice for the year, Twelve Rays of Solstice, is a twist on the more familiar Omen Days tradition. In the twelve days stretching from December 21 to January 1, you seek out a sign each day that foretells of the year to come. Dec. 21 corresponds to January, Dec 22 to Feb. all the way to Jan 1’s offering of what December of 2025 will bring Let's share this practice together. I'll be sharing my 12 Rays over on Instagram and in my Substack Notes Music at the start of the show is by Beth Sweeney and Billy Hardy: billyandbeth.com WORK WITH MARISA 1:1 Writing Coaching: If you are working on a spiritual memoir or wellness professional or a creative entrepreneur who wants to use stories to build your business, book a free consultation with Marisa. Learn more at writingcoachmarisa.com Learn about our global creative community, The Writers’ Knot: www.marisagoudy.com/writers-knot-community Find more of Marisa's writing and get a copy of her book, The Sovereignty Knot: www.marisagoudy.com Follow the show on Substack , Instagram , and Facebook .…
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1 A Storyteller, A Story Listener with Rab Fulton | S5 Ep16 59:35
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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. 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 Galway, and he doesn’t know how to be with the land or honor the stories and traditions of this new land. Thanks to a foolish choice, and a bit of magic, the man eventually becomes an integral part of the community. OUR GUEST Rab Fulton is a Galway-based Scottish/Irish storyteller, author, and educator. Along with with Kerry Graham, Rab is the host of The Celtic Tales Chronicles podcast. His books include West of Ireland Folk Tales for Children and Galway Bay Folk Tales. You can find Rab telling stories upstairs in the Crane Bar in Galway’s West End every Thursday evening. Get your tickets in advance - they often sell out! Follow Rab on instagram @celtictalesgalway for details on upcoming events, including the storytelling project 'Growing With Stories' with Amelia Perez. Find more about Rab on LinkedIn and at www.celtictalesgalway.com OUR CONVERSATION Rab tells a 200 year old story that speaks to our 21st century questions: How we deal with our anger? What’s possible when we commit to resolving our conflicts? How do we welcome the stranger and how do we honor traditions when we come to new places? What the new immigrants to Ireland bring to this land and how we weave new people into the Irish narrative. The burdens of single definitions of what nationalities are - we contain multitudes. Neither Scottish nor Irish society have ever been homogeneous. Galway, a port city that was essentially an English city, was a very diverse city, and that diversity still carries on today. Rab’s many years of storytelling at the Crane Bar and some insight into being a working storyteller. Growing up in Glasgow in a working class family with a duality of language speaking Scots, a cousin of English sometimes called “bad English.” The only Scottish history Rab was told was about the land clearances, an act of ethnic cleansing, and it was framed as a good economic practice. Why do we tell stories? Never underestimate the power of sheer pleasure! It’s as important to be a story listener as it is to be a storyteller. Check out the KWS episode featuring another Scottish storyteller Katy Swift: Bride and the Cailleach, S3 Ep 10 Music at the start of the show is by Beth Sweeney and Billy Hardy: billyandbeth.com WORK WITH MARISA 1:1 Writing Coaching: If you are working on a spiritual memoir or wellness professional or a creative entrepreneur who wants to use stories to build your business, book a free consultation with Marisa. Learn more at writingcoachmarisa.com Learn about our global creative community, The Writers’ Knot: www.marisagoudy.com/writers-knot-community Find more of Marisa's writing and get a copy of her book, The Sovereignty Knot: www.marisagoudy.com Follow the show on Substack , Instagram , and Facebook .…
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1 The Cailleach Weaving Through Our Bones, Song & Conversation with Sionnáin | S5 Ep 15 48:30
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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. 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 the second installment in our Myth Workers & Culture Makers series and includes a deep, powerful conversation about ancient tradition and living lore. OUR GUEST Sionnáin is a singer, songwriter & musician from the West of Ireland. Her path has guided her into gathering both traditional and channeled songs from the landscape of Éire. She lives and breathes the sounds of the land, offering them up as prayers, woven with raw edges, soundscapes and the great depths of the ancient places that shape her journey. Find her on IG at shannonsoulsounds . There, you'll find another gorgeous version of "The Wise One," including beautiful visusals. Learn about Sionnáin’s upcoming program: The Descent:Dreaming with the Cailleach & Rising with Brigid Contact her at shannonsoulsounds@gmail.com OUR CONVERSATION The song, “The Wise One,” was born beside the fire at the Paps of Anu in County Kerry. The Cailleach is the wise old woman, the sacred hag, grandmother essence, and according to some traditions in Éire and Alba (Scotland), the goddess who created the land itself. Cailleach is rooted in contrast - she is strong and fierce, but also soft and nurturing. Caoineadh - the ancient Irish lament tradition (Anglicized as “keen”). The mná chaointe , keening women who would perform the ritual of grief at the wake. For more: visit Mary McLaughlin , a scholar and keeper of the wisdom of the tradition. The legacy of grief related to An tOcras Mór or An Gorta Mor, the famine or the Great Hunger. The conscious choice to open and receive the ancestors, the songs, the magic Tuam: the Galway town and site of the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home from 1925-1961, where the remains of 796 babies were found in a disused septic tank. Ireland’s Samhain community traditions that were about sharing and visiting, rather than the commercialized version we have today. Music at the start of the show is by Beth Sweeney and Billy Hardy: billyandbeth.com WORK WITH MARISA 1:1 Writing Coaching: If you are working on a spiritual memoir or wellness professional or a creative entrepreneur who wants to use stories to build your business, book a free consultation with Marisa. Learn more at writingcoachmarisa.com Learn about our global creative community, The Writers’ Knot: www.marisagoudy.com/writers-knot-community Find more of Marisa's writing and get a copy of her book, The Sovereignty Knot: www.marisagoudy.com Follow the show on Substack , Instagram , and Facebook .…
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1 Aodh Ó Riagáin | S5 Ep14 | Myth Workers and Culture Makers Series 44:36
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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. 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 time, even when we don’t engage in traditional storytelling. This new series called Myth Workers & Culture Makers takes us into conversation with artists, leaders, and creatives of all kind who shape their work - and our world - through myth. OUR GUEST Aodh Ó Riagáin is an Irish creator of illustration, hand-drawn animation, comics and beyond, working with a foundation of traditional tools. Creatively known by the moniker Oreganillo., Aodh is working in the bardic and the druidic tradition of storytelling and myth-making. Connect with Aodh: https://oreganillo.org/ and on Instagram @oreganilloartworks In this episode: Aodh considers taking up the bardic tradition to be a lifelong quest Irish words that helped Aodh tap into the Irish mythic tradition (and receive the Silver Branch of Manannán ): ceantar, which means place or locality, and alltar, which is its opposite - the otherworld. Aodh’s fascination with Queen Medb (Maeve), the subject of his graphic novel in progress. Goddesses like Medb and Mongfind can help us work with contemporary issues of power. Aodh’s short film, Candlebaths - a meditation on fire. Ursula K LeGuin’s essay Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction How shamans, druids, and witches would have been neurodivergent people who have a complex and vibrant internal world but are “maybe not so good in the material world.” Aodh’s five year plan: make a feature film that deals with Irish mythology Music at the start of the show is by Beth Sweeney and Billy Hardy: billyandbeth.com Work With Marisa 1:1 Writing Coaching: If you are working on a spiritual memoir or wellness professional or a creative entrepreneur who wants to use stories to build your business, book a free consultation with Marisa. Learn more at writingcoachmarisa.com Learn about our global creative community, The Writers’ Knot: www.marisagoudy.com/writers-knot-community Find more of Marisa's writing and get a copy of her book, The Sovereignty Knot: www.marisagoudy.com Follow the show on Substack , Instagram , and Facebook .…
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1 Remembering a Goddess, Three Years On | S5 Ep13 39:00
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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. 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, who has featured in several episodes. After some reflections on what it means to keep working this myth in a contemporary context, this episode includes a replay of Marisa’s 2023 story, The Last Sovereignty Goddess. In this episode: For a more complete Mongfind story that sticks to the original source material, listen to S1 Ep2, Ireland's Forgotten Goddess-Queen-Witch The idea for KnotWork Storytelling emerged from a “conversation” with the goddess over an autumn equinox fire in 2021. Mongfind’s original message included the declaration: I am interrupted feminine power. Marisa reflects on power, and how not all females in power represent feminine power. Riane Eisler , systems scientist, futurist, and author of The Chalice and the Blade makes the distinction not between masculine and feminine approaches, but between domination and partnership systems. Kamala Harris’s promise to build the “most lethal fighting force in the world” is an example of the perpetuation of the domination system. As Eisler says in Advaya’s Reimagining Women and Power Course : “The opposite of patriarchy is not matriarchy; it’s partnership.” And, Marisa remembers a childhood classmate who died this week. Matthew Nelson engaged in self-immolation , the most profound act of civil disobedience to protest the ongoing genocide in Gaza. He set himself on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Boston on September 11. Our Music Music at the start of the show is by Beth Sweeney and Billy Hardy: billyandbeth.com Work With Marisa 1:1 Writing Coaching: If you are working on a spiritual memoir or wellness professional or a creative entrepreneur who wants to use stories to build your business, book a free consultation with Marisa. Learn more at writingcoachmarisa.com The Writers’ Knot opens to new members through September 9. Learn more and join the interest list: www.marisagoudy.com/writers-knot-community Find more of Marisa's writing and get a copy of her book, The Sovereignty Knot: www.marisagoudy.com Follow the show on Substack , Instagram , and Facebook .…
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1 A Story About Getting Unstoried | S5 Ep12 18:16
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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 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 This week, our story isn’t a retelling of an ancient myth or offering a new spin on an old bit of folklore. Instead, it’s a long, open ended response to this question: Is it possible I'm hiding behind stories? Host Marisa Goudy reflects on how stories have shaped her work and wrestles with this question. Inspired by a powerful conversation with friend and colleague Carmen Schreffler , this episode explores the delicate balance between storytelling and the deeper meaning-making process. Here's a writing prompt from a recent Writers’ Knot session that will help you explore what it means to “get unstoried’: Most prompts in the Writers’ Knot include the phrase “tell the story of…” Stories are necessary. Stories make us human. And, we may set limitations on our understanding of the more-than-human world when we impose story on everything we encounter. Be with an unstoried place, creature, or experience. Dare to strip away the story and be with what is. Allow this to be both possible and impossible. Allow yourself to resort to metaphor and even tell the story of how you tried to write without imagining the story of it all. Join the Writers’ Knot: The Writers’ Knot community is open to new members until September 9, 2024. If you’re a writer or creative looking for a supportive global community and these ideas resonate, this is the writing group for you. Learn more at www.marisagoudy.com/writers-knot-community About Carmen Schreffler: Carmen is a previous podcast guest and member of the Writers’ Knot. Learn more about her approach to work and life on her Substack, Way of WildPreneur . Our Music Music at the start of the show is by Beth Sweeney and Billy Hardy: billyandbeth.com Work With Marisa 1:1 Writing Coaching: If you are working on a spiritual memoir or wellness professional or a creative entrepreneur who wants to use stories to build your business, book a free consultation with Marisa. Learn more at writingcoachmarisa.com The Writers’ Knot opens to new members through September 9. Learn more and join the interest list: www.marisagoudy.com/writers-knot-community Find more of Marisa's writing and get a copy of her book, The Sovereignty Knot: www.marisagoudy.com Follow the show on Substack , Instagram , and Facebook .…
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1 Molly's Story by Erica O'Reilly | S5 Ep11 59:14
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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. 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 Irish pubs around the world. But who was Molly, really? Erica O’Reilly imagines a tale of life and death, of real world work and otherworldly transformation. OUR GUEST As a sacred storyteller, spiritual counselor, and ordained minister (through the Sacred Stream Foundation in Berkeley, CA), Erica's work is rooted in creating spaces where souls feel seen, held, and heard. Erica’s life-long love for the arts and collaboration in community has taken her all over the world, including: Ottawa, Toronto, Northern Ontario, New York, Italy, and Ireland. Recently, her theater company, Into the Circle Theatre premiered its inaugural show (Stars, Stones, and Shadows: A Heroine’s Tale) at the 2023 Ottawa Fringe Festival to rave reviews. Into the Circle Theatre is passionately rooted in reverently honoring the tradition of the seanchaí in a modern context. Through the inspirations and weaving of Irish culture, history, folklore, and mythology, the stories shared are hallowed tales of women re-membering and re-claiming their embodied wisdom and sovereign power. Being of Irish and French ancestry, Erica is deeply grateful to the traditional spirits and land keepers of the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinabeg People, where she was born and currently resides. Find Erica at into-the-circle.com ; on Substack, Weavings of the Wise & Embodied , and Instagram @wise.and.embodied OUR CONVERSATION Erica’s experience of what it feels like to be what she calls a “sacred storyteller” The idea of being a hollow bone for a story or character (some quick research suggests this is a Lakota tradition) Molly’s death journey - death in the Irish tradition including wakes, funerals, and keening Mná is Irish for “women” Mná feasa (wise women), mná chaointe (keening women), mná gluine (midwives), mná leigheas (medicine women) The washer woman and the energy of the bean sí (banshee) - scholar Patricia Lysaght talks of the banshee appearing to inform the community that death is coming; Erica imagines her as a guide for souls The tradition that warns people to never eat or drink anything when you enter in the fairy realm Weaving story, voice, drum - Erica’s creative process and how it relies on a connection to the Fite fuaite - the Irish for “inextricably interwoven” Imbas foronsnai - inspiration that illuminates or poetic inspiration Our Music Music at the start of the show is by Beth Sweeney and Billy Hardy: billyandbeth.com Work With Marisa 1:1 Writing Coaching: If you are working on a spiritual memoir or wellness professional or a creative entrepreneur who wants to use stories to build your business, book a free consultation with Marisa. Learn more at writingcoachmarisa.com The Writers’ Knot opens to new members on Lughnasadh, August 1. Learn more and join the interest list: www.marisagoudy.com/writers-knot-community Find more of Marisa's writing and get a copy of her book, The Sovereignty Knot: www.marisagoudy.com Follow the show on Substack , Instagram , and Facebook .…
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1 Language, Idea, Metaphor, Myth: Poetry by Adam Wyeth | S5 Ep10 47:03
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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. 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 selection of poems from award-winning poet, playwright and essayist Adam Wyeth. OUR GUEST Adam Wyeth is the critically acclaimed author of five books published with leading Irish publisher, Salmon Press. He is an Associate Artist of the Civic Theatre, Dublin. In 2019 he received The Kavanagh Fellowship Award. Adam’s debut collection, Silent Music was Highly Commended by the Forward Poetry Prize. His second book, The Hidden World of Poetry: Unravelling Celtic Mythology in Contemporary Irish Poetry, (Foreword by Paula Meehan) contains poems from Ireland’s leading poets followed by essays that unpack and explore Celtic mythological references in each work. His poetry collection The Art of Dying was published in 2016, and was named as an Irish Times Book of the Year. Adam’s plays have been performed across Ireland and in New York and Berlin. His play, This Is What Happened was published by Salmon in 2019. His latest book about:blank is an experimental hybrid piece, mixing poetry, prose and dramatic text. In 2020 Adam received the Arts Council Ireland Literature Project Award and was selected for The National Theatre of Ireland, The Abbey Theatre, to work on an audio production of about:blank. Adam is a member of Poetry Ireland’s Writers in Schools Scheme and has over twenty years of experience facilitating Creative Writing Workshops. As well as teaching, Adam provides one-to-one mentoring sessions for writers, giving critical feedback on poems and whole manuscripts via his website adamwyeth.com. Adam lives in Dublin where he works as a freelance writer. For more info on Adam’s work and books visit www.salmonpoetry.com OUR CONVERSATION Joseph Campbell said, “myth is metaphor.” For Adam, a poem is like a mythology in miniature. The role of Jungian thought and depth psychology Adam’s story of moving to Ireland and discovering both poetry and mythology when he landed in the harbor town of Kinsale and learned from poet and scholar Desmond O’Grady the importance of “discipline, routine, and regularity” in a writing life. The Hidden World of Poetry was intended to introduce a “new mythmaking” for a non-Irish audience. How reading a poem is so different from the way we read anything else today. The breakthrough moment that comes through when we work with a poem over time. There’s no money in poetry, and so you can say anything you want. Poetry has power because it stands outside of the typical contemporary power structures. All great art comes from the mythic imagination. The power of active imagination and entering into conversation with a dream character. Adam’s working doc called “write rubbish speed writing”: it was intended to help him limber up before a writing session, but became an essential source of material for his writing, particularly about:blank - the doc that is mean to be about limbering up has become the most important thing Charles Taylor , Canadian philosopher. Dublin as character in about:blank. Taking inspiration from Ezra Pound, “make it new” Poetry that highlights the extraordinary nature of the internet and technology; internet like the unconscious. The human mind cannot bear too much reality, but the internet can Our Music Music at the start of the show is by Beth Sweeney and Billy Hardy: billyandbeth.com Work With Marisa 1:1 Writing Coaching: If you are working on a spiritual memoir or wellness professional or a creative entrepreneur who wants to use stories to build your business, book a free consultation with Marisa. Learn more at writingcoachmarisa.com The Writers’ Knot opens to new members on Lughnasadh, August 1. Learn more and join the interest list: www.marisagoudy.com/writers-knot-community Find more of Marisa's writing and get a copy of her book, The Sovereignty Knot: www.marisagoudy.com Follow the show on Substack , Instagram , and Facebook .…
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1 A Mother’s Love, A Mother’s Sacrifice: Tailtiu and Lugh | S5 Ep9 31:36
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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 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. And, your paid subscription gives you free access to the HARVEST retreat! Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. OUR STORY As the traditional Irish myth goes, Tailtiu, the foster mother of Lugh of the Tuatha Dé Danann, clears vast fields so the people can plant their first crops. And then she dies from exhaustion. The great festival of Lughnasa (on or around August 1) is held in her honor. In this retelling, our host Marisa Goudy imagines why Tailtiu, a woman of the Fir Bolg, would sacrifice herself in this way. REFLECTIONS The myth - and the reality - of the selfless mother. Is it possible to celebrate what motherhood is, but also decouple it from that expectation of self-sacrifice? The way the birth of the son leads to the initiation of the mother in myths around the world. The origins of the festival of Lughnasadh What conveys divinity? Tailtiu was a member of the mortal Fir Bolg, but it was her devotion and her action that rendered her the goddess we remember today. This story is often used as the origin of agriculture, which is near-universally seen as a good thing, but James C. Scott’s Against the Grain questions the “narrative of progress” - the creation of sedentary farming communities had a lot more to do with benefitting the state and concentrating power in the hands of the few than it did with offering people a reliable, nutritious food supply. This story invites us to question everything. What if Tailtiu had made a different choice? What if she brought a group of women to help her and had not died? What if she had bumped into Lugh on her way? What if she hadn’t replicated the Greek model and brought agriculture to Ireland? Our Music Music at the start of the show is by Beth Sweeney and Billy Hardy: billyandbeth.com Work With Marisa 1:1 Writing Coaching: If you are working on a spiritual memoir or wellness professional or a creative entrepreneur who wants to use stories to build your business, book a free consultation with Marisa. Learn more at writingcoachmarisa.com The Writers’ Knot opens to new members on Lughnasadh, August 1. Learn more and join the interest list: www.marisagoudy.com/writers-knot-community Find more of Marisa's writing and get a copy of her book, The Sovereignty Knot: www.marisagoudy.com Follow the show on Substack , Instagram , and Facebook .…
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