​For over two decades, Ahri Golden has been building a body of work born entirely from the fire of her own life. Not a method borrowed from someone else. Not a framework assembled from best practices. A living, breathing archive of what happens when one woman refuses to separate who she is from what she makes. She didn’t follow the wound. She followed the wound and made it into something that could help others. That is what she brings to you.

THE WORK

In 2004, while processing her abortion experiences and contemplating becoming a mother, Ahri co-created SHADES OF GRAY, a public radio documentary examining every side of the abortion debate. It won
​The Golden Reel Award for Best National Radio Documentary.

While pregnant with her son, she was moved to co-create BIRTH and then BORN, two public radio documentaries about birth and postpartum in the US, both nationally distributed by Public Radio International. Alongside them, she co-created THE BIRTH TOUR, an intimate listening and story sharing event for mothers to build community from the ground up. Organized in over 75 cities and towns nationwide, this work midwifed motherhood into the media and culture where its endless facets could be welcomed, explored, and challenged. 

Then after birthing her daughter, she was compelled to turn her radio making skills into music with DELVE, a 10 song autobiographical album, born from the threshold of becoming a mother of two. Winner of Best Jazz Song from the American Songwriting Awards, her story and music are featured in THE GODDESS PROJECT, a feature film about women who live and lead with courage.

After the 2016 election, her disorienting grief became A MOTHER'S LENS, a podcast series hailed as "a new genre", weaving song and story into solace. When the pandemic arrived, she turned her quest to understand this collective tragedy into BENDING IN 2020, portraits of wisdom in the Covid era. Both were nationally distributed by NPR’s 51%.

Also during Covid, she launched STILLPOINT, an experimental podcast series braiding stories, songs, conversations, and wisdom to illuminate human resilience. It was named a Top 20 Experimental Design Podcast of 2021 by UK Welp Magazine.

WHO SHE IS

Ahri is not someone who arrived at this work through professional training alone. She is a woman who wore her babies on her body and nursed them both for two years. Who birthed her children at home, the first natural births in her lineage in a hundred years. Who had a miscarriage and buried the fetus in her yard with her own hands. Who met her husband Jay Golden in the Women Seeking Men section on Craigslist in 2002, sensed immediate alignment from his writing that he would be the father of her children, and was spot on.

She comes from a lineage of accomplished women... two entrepreneurial grandmothers, an attorney mother who went to law school when Ahri was fourteen, and a world-renowned artist aunt. Achievement among women was the status quo in her family system. But she is the one who took everything her lineage built outward and brought it back into the body. Into the Earth. Into the wild, sovereign interior that no credential can replace. She is also Adjunct Media Professor at Southern Oregon University, where she originated and teaches ALIVE : Your Voice, This Moment, supporting students to sonically hone and produce one courageous story from their lives that gives them strength in times of great change.

THE STORY WOMB

Amidst the pandemic, in 2022, Ahri reflected on what she had built up to that point : sonic crafting, story intelligence, lived passages through motherhood, loss, and transformation into menopause. She crystallized these experiences and expressions into a single role as MEDIA MIDWIFE.

Inside The Story Womb, she now collaborates with soul-led women entrepreneurs to HONE their most complex personal and professional stories, which can then become a sound rich, beautifully produced PODCAST SERIES. Not content. Not branding. Something deeper, embodied and alive, an initiation rooted in truth, built to last, and capable of moving the people it was made to move. 

Ahri doesn’t extract your story. She receives it. She holds it with you in gestation until it knows what it wants to become. Then she helps you collaboratively create something that lasts.

And, if you have an existing podcast, and know that it could sound way better, more intimate, more professional, more you, then book your PODCAST AUDIT to get Golden's "eagle ears" on your show.
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