​There are coaches. There are producers. There are storytellers. There are life artists. There are mamas. Ahri Golden is none of these things alone - and that’s exactly the point.

For over two decades, she 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, a nationwide listening and story sharing event for mothers to build community from the ground up.

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 new motherhood. 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 one courageous story from their lives that gives them strength in times of great change.

The Story Womb

Amidst the pandemic, in 2022, Ahri refected on what she had built up to that point - the sonic craft, the story intelligence, the lived passage through motherhood and loss and transformation into menopause, and crystallized these experiences and expressions into a single role as Media Midwife.

Inside The Story Womb, she now works with visionary women leaders to excavate, HONE, and shape their most complex personal stories into an immersive PODCAST SERIES sonic creations. Not content. Not branding. Something alive and 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.

When the Executive Producer Kerrie Hillman of StoryCorps calls her "a marvel," when the Peabody Award-winning former Artistic Director of The Moth, Catherine Burns says she is "a powerhouse. a gift to this world," when a client says "this is the best investment I have ever made in my business and personal life" they are describing something that cannot be replicated by a system, a template, or a trend.

If you are a visionary whose deepest work is still waiting to be heard then you’re in the right place.
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