Entrepreneur + Award-Winning Media Midwife, Ahri Golden, is a consultant + podcast producer, coach + professor + artist + mother of two, deeply informed by stories + creative response to the world that is unfolding within and around us.
Golden created SHADES OF GRAY, a public radio documentary about the many sides of the abortion debate, which won The Golden Reel Award for Best National Radio Documentary.
Next, BIRTH and then BORN, two public radio documentaries about birth + postpartum in the US. In parallel, she created THE BIRTH TOUR, a nationwide live story sharing event about birth.
Then, inspired by mothering, Golden created DELVE, a 10 song autobiographical album that won Best Jazz Song from the American Songwriting Awards.. Her story + music is featured in THE GODDESS PROJECT, a feature film sharing stories of inspiring women.
Golden's experimental audio projects enlist documentary, music + memoir to create a more urgent human response to the roiling changes in society.
After the 2016 election, Golden created A MOTHER'S LENS hailed as a "new genre" podcast series. When the pandemic hit, she turned her search for solace into BENDING IN 2020, a podcast series featuring portraits of wisdom in the Covid Era. Both series were nationally distributed by NPR's 51%.
In 2021, Golden launched an experimental podcast series, STILLPOINT, weaving stories + songs, conversations + wisdom, illuminating human resilience and transformation. This work was named Top 20 Experimental Design Podcasts of 2021 by the UK Welp Magazine.
Golden is Adjunct Media Professor at Southern Oregon University, where she teaches ALIVE: YOUR VOICE, THIS MOMENT, brave sonic stories in harrowing times of change.
Currently, Golden offers podcast series consulting + creation as MEDIA MIDWIFE in THE STORY WOMB supporting wise visionary women leaders 1:1 or in a group to co-create works fueling the regenerative culture.
In 2022, Golden saw great potential in the people, project, and purpose that has become RED FOR REVOLUTION, an audio drama about love and liberation - WINNER at The 2024 Tribeca Film Festival's Audio Storytelling Division.
Her consulting on this visionary podcast series creation resulted in a collaboration with brand design partners at BWB's Partner Up Program.