Join host Leigh Melander, Ph.D., and her guests from around the world as we explore the evocative mythologies that inform who we are as Americans on Myth America™. Myths are the stories that we tell and the stories that tell us.™ They are the metaphors that shape our imagination of the world around us. Podcasts from mythamericaradio.com
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The ancient Greeks said that myths wer
e the things that were most and least true simultaneously. Far from just being a lie, myths pulse in the background of all of our lives -- our selves, our families, our communities -- we tell ourselves stories about all of them. What are the myths we're living in and how are they living in us? Podcasts available on mythamericaradio.com, the new Joseph Campbell Foundation Mythmaker Podcast Network, and podcast platforms internationally. Twitter
Myth America™ was originally broadcast beginning in 2014 on WIOX Radio 91.3 FM, Roxbury NY. A project of Spillian LLC, a creative center offering programming in imagination, story, myth, sustainability, and community. spillian.com
About Leigh
Leigh Melander has a doctorate in cultural mythology and psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, and has a background in writing and the performing arts, marketing and strategic planning, and strengthening communities nationally and internationally. She has served as a board member for the Joseph Campbell Foundation and on the academic advisory board for Spring Journal for several years, was featured on the on the History Channel as an expert on myth and story, and originally hosted Myth America, as a weekly radio program on myth and imagination on an NPR affiliate in New York for four years. She was the founding editor of the Joseph Campbell Foundation MythBlast essay series, and has been published in Spring Journal, the award-winning Routledge International Handbook of Jungian Film Studies, and released her first book, Psyche’s Choice, in 2019. Leigh works with individuals, communities, and organizations to imagine past what they think as possible, and she and her husband own Spillian: A Place to Revel, a regenerative center for imagination and creativity on the historic Fleischmanns Yeast family estate in the Catskills.
