Sex and relationships are intimate — and sometimes intimidating to talk about. In WUNC’s award-winning show, host Anita Rao guides us on an exploration of our brains and bodies that touches down in taboo territory.
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Our theme music is by Quilla (Anna Luisa Daigneault).
Embodied won our second Ambie Award for Best Wellness & Relationships podcast in 2026. In 2025, Embodied took home first and second place awards from the Public Media Journalists Association and was a runner-up in the International Women's Podcast Awards. The show has won three Edward R. Murrow Regional Awards for best podcast and four National Headliner Awards for Best Information Podcast. In the summer of 2022, NPR's Codeswitch featured us on their Summer Road Trip Playlist! In 2020, Mashable named us as one of the best sex, erotica, dating and relationship podcasts.
Read Anita's piece on the origin story of the Embodied series in The Huffington Post!
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