Higher Grounds
Dramatized Mystery Series
Explicit
In 1993, rock frontwoman Elle Harrison was found dead at Higher Grounds, the Nashville coffeehouse she owned with her three best friends. Authorities ruled it a suicide. No one believed that.
Thirty years later, the women who built the coffeehouse are ready to break their silence.
Told through candid interviews, Higher Grounds is an intimate portrait of lifelong friendship, ambition, and survival, tracing four women’s lives through the decades to the moment long-buried secrets erupted into one of Music City’s most infamous scandals.
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In 1993, rock frontwoman Elle Harrison was found dead at Higher Grounds, the Nashville coffeehouse she owned with her three best friends. Authorities ruled it a suicide. Few believed that. Thirty years later, the remaining women break their silence for the first time. Told through candid interviews, Higher Grounds is an intimate oral history of lifelong friendship, ambition, and impossible choices, tracing four women’s lives from girlhood to the explosive moment everything came undone.Higher Grounds is the debut fiction podcast series from YellaBird MediaPremiering February 2026. Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts. Written and produced by Kimberly Conway, Starring:Laura Jane Jones as SylviaCynthia Ergenbright as JoniJanice Lynn Sykes as RozKaty Yoder as ElleKimberly Conway as KatRobert Fleet as GentryGervais Weekes as CharlesStacey Lightman as Randiand a full castSound Design & Mixing: YellaBird MediaMixing & Mastering: Rick SuchWebsite: www.yellabird.comInstagram: @YellaBirdMedia #HigherGroundsPodcast #fictionpodcast #audiodrama #womeninpodcasting #nashville #oralhistory #cinematicsound #womenauthors #scriptedpodcast #emotionalfiction #booktok