Chion Wolf
Host / Producer, Audacious with Chion WolfChion Wolf is the host of Audacious with Chion Wolf on Connecticut Public, featuring conversations with people who have uncommon or misunderstood experiences, conditions, or professions.
She is the winner of a 2021 Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation for her 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.
She is also a recipient of The Advocate's Champions of Pride 2021 as an "unsung hero who is making inroads for LGBTQ+ people in their fields of work and in their communities every day despite the risks or challenges."
She is the host of Other People's Poems, which happens every first Friday at Hartford Flavor Company. People share one poem they love that someone other than them wrote. Those who have their poems memorized win a loofah.
Previously, she produced and hosted The Mouth-Off - a live storytelling event at the Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, and a live advice show at Sea Tea Improv's underground comedy theater called Asking for a Friend with Chion Wolf.
She is also the founder of Pedal to the Medal, a pre-Eversource Hartford Marathon bike ride that has raised over $16,000 for Hartford's non-profit, educational bicycle store, BiCi Co.
Wolf is a founding member of the Hartford-based marching band, the Hartford Hot Several. After destroying 18 trash cans with too mighty a swing, she now plays a proper bass drum with sound-activated twinkly rainbow lights inside of it with pillow stuffing to make it look like a cloud in there. There is also a very loud cymbal attached, which she prefers to hit more often than the songs call for.
Chion is also a certified judge with the International Chili Society and is unapologetic about her love for onions and white chocolate, which makes her tremendously easy to shop for.
She is a proud homeowner in Hartford's Asylum Hill neighborhood, where she cares deeply and enthusiastically for her pollinator and veggie gardens, four chickens, a couple hundred Russian honey bees, her cat, Whiskey, and her also-Russian dog, Gray.
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On this episode of Audacious, meet protestors who've thrown soup at a Van Gogh, worn all white with a splotch on the crotch to protest circumcision, and used sex toys to protest gun laws. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet wingsuit BASE jumper, Ellen Brennen Frat, and the first women to ski solo to the South Pole, Liv Arnesen. -
On this episode of Audacious, explore telepathy, intuition, how to live a good life, and read people's minds with mentalist, Dr. Kruti Parekh. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet chef Christine Ha, who became the first blind person to win MasterChef, and poet Edward Hirsch, who finds exhilaration in his blindness. -
On this episode of Audacious, we follow first-time, non-violent offender, Mike West, before, during, and after he spends a year incarcerated. -
On this episode of Audacious, Jackie Bibby set world records with rattlesnakes, and Tim Friede has been bitten by snakes to try to create a universal antivenom. -
For the past two years, Chion has asked every Audacious guest one question at the end of their interview: What's your favorite piece of life advice or wisdom? -
On this episode of Audacious, you’ll meet four people who are married to spirits, ancestors, or gods, also known as Spectrosexuals. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet two artists whose messages of positivity, encouragement, and love have exploded on social media. -
On this episode of Audacious, meet two people who discovered shocking family secrets. They talk about how sharing the truth has set them and their loved ones free.
