Audacious with Chion Wolf

Series produced by Connecticut Public (WNPR)

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Audacious with Chion Wolf highlights the uncommon experiences of everyday people – asking questions that get right to the heart of things.

Transcend assumptions. Humanize the stereotyped. Understand the misunderstood.

Audacious with Chion Wolf highlights the uncommon experiences of everyday people – asking questions that get right to the heart of things. With curiosity and compassion, Connecticut Public producer and host Chion Wolf digs deeper, encouraging you to ask hard questions in your own life.

Chion is the winner of a 2021 Gracie Award, from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation for her Audacious episode, Going Flat, or Building New Breasts: Two Women’s Post-Mastectomy Stories.

She won a second Gracie Award in 2022 for the episode, I Regret Becoming A Parent.

Her third Gracie was awarded in 2024 for Best Host.


115 Pieces

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How you see the world and yourself differently when you're part of a diaspora
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Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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This hour on Audacious, Chion talks with guests about what it's like to leave your home country to make a life in a new one? Plus, a conversation w...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
What it’s like to be able to smell illnesses
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On this episode of Audacious, meet a woman who is able to smell cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, TB, and Parkinson’s. Plus, hear from two women who ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Extreme allergies and rare conditions can teach us a lot about human tolerance
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On this episode of Audacious: There are the common allergies like pollen, peanuts, and certain medications. But what if you had a bad reaction to w...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Views from the end: Lynda Bluestein, medical aid in dying, and the importance of humor every day
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On this episode of Audacious, meet Lynda Shannon Bluestein who changed medical aid in dying laws, began a wind phone project, and made people laugh...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Hot Shots: Photography, music, and pizza from inside a volcano
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On this episode of Audacious, meet a man who photographs volcanoes, another who made music using 10 years of volcanic data, and another who cooks p...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
'I Will Always Love You': Jada Star’s musical bond with her aunt Dolly Parton
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What's it like being related to someone super famous? Like… Dolly Parton! Singer-songwriter Jada Star talks about shining bright in her aunt Dolly’...

Bought by WUOT 91.9 FM


  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
How protest art aims to "comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable"
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On this episode of Audacious: Protest art including abortion pills as jewelry, word art amplifying messages of racial justice, and Disney character...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jan 02, 2024
  • Length: 50:01
  • Purchases: 1
Life after Parkland: A victim’s dad turns to art and activism
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On this episode of Audacious, meet Manuel Oliver. He's the father of Joaquin, who was one of 17 murdered students and teachers in Parkland, Florida...

Bought by WGCU


  • Added: Jan 02, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
It’s not just a sex doll! What it’s like to be in a relationship with a synthetic partner
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This hour on Audacious with Chion Wolf, we find out why synthetic companions can address more than just physical pleasure. Plus, a history of where...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
What near-death and shared-death experiences tell us about living
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On this episode of Audacious: What happens when we die? Or… when we almost die? Hear from a neurosurgeon who had a near-death experience about his ...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
The One Where All The Guests Are Named Pat Smith
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Today on Audacious, all four guests are named Pat Smith! What else do they have in common? And what's so different about them?

  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
Born Again: The Art & Healing Of Reborn Dolls
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Audacious host Chion Wolf looks at the world of Reborn Babies. These hyper-realistic-looking dolls are collected for their extraordinary artistic a...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
Cart Talk: Conversations with Trader Joe's and Costco Aficionados
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On this episode of Audacious, meet people who are wholeheartedly committed to loving and sharing the good word about Costco and Trader Joe's.

  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
Control, command, play: The power of being a dominant in the BDSM world
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From our Audacious love series: From the world of BDSM and kink, meet dominants. One gets money just for existing, and another uses his wheelchair ...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 50:05
Spectrosexuality: When a spirit is your spouse
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On this episode of Audacious, you’ll meet four people who are married to spirits, ancestors, or gods, also known as Spectrosexuals.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
BFF's for real: Life as Platonic Life Partners
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“What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life?” On this episode of Audacious, you’ll meet people who are in Platonic Life Partnershi...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 50:03
Audaciously Uplifting TikTokers
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On this episode of Audacious, from grave cleaning to free house cleaning to drive-by compliments, meet people who use TikTok to make the world a be...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
GOOD NEWS! That’s how we celebrate 100 episodes of Audacious
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For this 100th episode of Audacious, hear good news! An engagement, a new baby, a big compliment, an unexpected expression of acceptance at a funer...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
Social media, the algorithm, and the state of our hearts
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On this episode of Audacious, meet Joel Cross, Scott Tatum, and Daníel Colón, who use social media to inspire, connect, and show other ways of embr...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
A conversation with Humans of New York creator Brandon Stanton
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On this episode of Audacious, meet Brandon Stanton, the creator of the photo/storytelling/fundraising powerhouse that is Humans of New York.

  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 50:01