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Audacious with Chion Wolf

Audacious with Chion Wolf will highlight the uncommon experiences of everyday people – asking the hardest, most uncomfortable questions. With curiosity and compassion, Connecticut Public producer and host Chion Wolf digs deeper, encouraging listeners to ask hard questions in their own lives.

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Facing the world with visible facial differences
I think it’s safe to say that all of us have multifaceted relationships with the way our faces look. We may notice a blemish here, a scar there, a bump or a divot all arranged on our face to show the world some of what makes us… us. But what if, on your precious face, it wasn’t just a blemish or …
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Poet Zulynette on “Seeing in the Dark”
Zulynette needs no last name. She’s a Hartford-based poet (among other things) whose book, Seeing in the Dark, just came out. She joins Chion around a fire to talk about poetry, power, and, of course, names. GUEST: Zulynette: Visual artist, social worker, host of The Creative Alchemist podcast,…
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Life after abortion
Note from Chion: This episode of Audacious deals with themes that may be disturbing to some listeners, including stories from our guests about rape and assault. Ten people talk about why they had an abortion, how they feel about it years down the road, and how they felt when Roe v. Wade was overtu…
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Laugh and then think: What it's like to win the Ig Nobel Prize
Almost 1000 people have won Nobel Prizes. But only 300 have won IG Nobel Prizes! That’s the award honoring achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. In this episode, meet the creator of the prize, and three people who’ve won it! Mark your calendar: The next Ig Nobel Pri…
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BFF's for real: Life as Platonic Life Partners
Think about your BFF (that’s Best Friend For Life). Now, imagine if that “for life” part was a deliberate, co-creative commitment. You’re free to date other people if you’re into that kinda thing, but you put each other down as your emergency contact, you live together, you may even raise kids to…
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These child prodigies are taking on the world
What’s it like to be a child prodigy? In this episode, you’ll meet a boy who became a chess master at the age of ten, a pair of siblings who started college at seven years old, and one of the youngest members of the high-IQ society, Mensa, who joined it when she was two. GUESTS: Tanitoluwa Adewu…
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SOLD! Audacious Auctioneers
How do auctioneers do what they do? Meet some of the best in the business, including a 102 year-old auctioneer - America’s oldest. Plus, hear what it was like for the guy who auctioned off that $28 million seat on the rocket ship, New Shepard. And find out what happens when a lead charity auctio…
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Audaciously Uplifting TikTokers
TikTok is full of… well, everything, so the Audacious team scoured the app to find people who use TikTok to spread kindness. Like a woman who researches and then cleans gravestones, another woman who cleans - at no charge - the houses of people who are going through tough times, and the CEO of a c…
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Anorexia is complex. Two people talk frankly about their decades-long journeys
Here are a few things we often get wrong about anorexia: That it always has something to do with body image. That men don’t really get it. That it’s insurmountable. Hear from an eating disorder specialist, and two people - including one who is in recovery - talking about their lives with anorex…
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We have to talk about cuddle parties
When you hear the words, “cuddle party”, what do you picture? Something playful? Something salacious? Something… else? When your culture equates affection with attraction, how does it feel to challenge that connection? And to what degree can affection be healing when it isn't necessarily connected…
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