THE ROLE OF A MEDIA MIDWIFE
Ahri is a sage. And so much more. Hire her.
- Tina Cassidy, CMO of WGBH Boston, TED Speaker, Author
A midwife doesn’t deliver the baby. She creates the conditions for the birth to happen.
A Media Midwife does the same thing with your stories. She doesn’t write them for you, perform them for you, or hand you a framework and call it yours. She sits with you in the generative dark - the place where what you know and what you’ve lived and what you’ve never quite been able to say all exist together, tangled and alive. She listens with her entire being until the shape of your stories become clear. Then she helps you bring them through.
Origins of Media Midwifing
Ahri didn’t invent the title Media Midwife. She became it. Through twenty years of making work that was always, at its core, about accompanying herself and others through life's thresholds.
She birthed her own children at home. Wore them. Nursed them. Watched the body know things the mind takes years to understand. She integrated her life experiences and fascinations by making public radio documentaries. Exploring subjects like birth and grief, the 2016 election, the pandemic - not only because these were interesting subjects but also because they were her way of processing life, and her life kept insisting on being made into something.
The daily practice of mothering - the fierce attention, the deep listening, the willingness to be present to what is actually happening rather than what you wish were happening - turned out to be the same set of skills required to midwife someone else’s stories into existence. That recognition became The Story Womb.
What a Media Midwife Actually Does
She asks the questions no one else thinks to ask. She hears what you’re reaching toward before you can say it. She holds the thread when you lose it, and names the pattern when you’re too close to see it.
She brings twenty years of award-winning sonic craft - Golden Reel Award, NPR national distribution, Top 20 Experimental Podcasts - to the work of shaping your story into something that moves people. Not just informs them.
And she brings something harder to credential: the embodied knowledge of what it means to follow the wound all the way to its source, and make something true from what you find there together.
The Story Womb
The Story Womb is the space where this work happens. Brave, gestational, entirely unhurried. It begins with HONE - the excavation and shaping of your source stories that can grow into a full PODCAST SERIES CREATION, a Sonic Legacy.
This work always produces a woman who has been deeply seen and understood at the soul level, perhaps for the first time, that her most complex and difficult stories are not liabilities to manage. They are the source material for everything she is here to create.www.ahrigolden.com/hone.html
Ahri Golden is a craftswoman of the tallest order -
a media midwife alchemist whose work is no less than a re-birthing of the emergent world, and the game-changers who are here to make a difference in it.
- Caitlin Naramore, CEO Modern Queen
Ahri is a master at weaving words and sound into meaning.
Her ability to grasp the critical nature of a message and hone it into an audio piece that is both accessible and compelling is nothing short of genius.
- Amy Henderson, Author of Tending
a media midwife alchemist whose work is no less than a re-birthing of the emergent world, and the game-changers who are here to make a difference in it.
- Caitlin Naramore, CEO Modern Queen
Ahri is a master at weaving words and sound into meaning.
Her ability to grasp the critical nature of a message and hone it into an audio piece that is both accessible and compelling is nothing short of genius.
- Amy Henderson, Author of Tending
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