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Kaia Findlay

Lead Producer, "Embodied"

Kaia Findlay is the lead producer for Embodied, 吉彩网网站's radio show and podcast on sex, relationships and health.

Her first exploration of radio came in elementary school, when she usually fell asleep listening to recordings of 1950s radio comedy programs. After a semester of writing for her high school newspaper, she decided she hated journalism. While pursuing her bachelor鈥檚 in environmental studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, she got talked back into it. Kaia received a master鈥檚 degree from the UNC Hussman School of Journalism, where she focused on reporting and science communication. She has published stories with Our State Magazine, Indy Week, and HuffPost. She previously worked as the manager for a podcast on environmental sustainability and higher education.

When not working at 吉彩网网站, Kaia goes rock climbing, takes long bike rides, and reads lots of books.

 

  • An illustration of an unmade bed with an open laptop, a Hitachi wand, crumpled tissues, a bra and wrinkled clothes on top. There is also a bottle of lube on a table next to the bed.
    Trouble with sex: understanding hypersexuality and sex addiction
    Kaia Findlay
    Compulsive sexual behavior has many names and no one clear diagnosis. But what is agreed upon is that when sex prohibits you from living life the way you want, that鈥檚 an issue. And there is help available.
  • An illustration featuring three people sitting around a table. The person all the way to the left has long brown hair and has a salad in front of them, with their back to the viewer. The person in the middle is wearing a purple striped hijab and is talking to the person on the right, with a knife in the air as if they're moving their hands in conversation. The person on the right has short brown hair and darker skin, a septum piercing and one earing. That person has a drink in front of them and a book on the table. The words "Embodied Expanded" are in the upper right hand corner of the illustration.
    Expanded: Sexuality in Conversation with Islam
    Kaia Findlay
    Religion and sexuality are often pitted against one another...so where does that leave folks who seek attunement and education for both?
  • An illustration with a young femme-presenting person in the foreground wearing a dark blue blazer buttoned down with a white shirt and mint green tie showing. The person has long dark hair with the tips dyed green. Behind them is a brown casket with yellow flowers on top. The words "Embodied Undertaken" are in the upper left hand corner of the illustration.
    Undertaken: The Next Generation Of Funeral Directors
    Kaia Findlay
    As the workforce of funeral directors ages, young folks are stepping up to lead and change the death care industry.
  • An illustration of two Black parents of either side if a young kid with cornrows. The father is on the left and the mother is on the right, and both parents are holding one hand of the child and swinging them. The child has their feet off the ground and their knees bent. The three of them are standing on a grassy field and are all wearing coats.
    Being and having an only child: separating truth from stereotype
    Kaia Findlay
    Assumptions about narcissism, loneliness and selfishness in only children are largely that: assumptions. But there are experiences unique to being an only child 鈥� and parenting one.
  • An illustration of two Black parents of either side if a young kid with cornrows. The father is on the left and the mother is on the right, and both parents are holding one hand of the child and swinging them. The child has their feet off the ground and their knees bent. The three of them are standing on a grassy field and are all wearing coats. The word "Singled" is on the left side of the illustration.
    Singled: Inside The Only-Child Family (Revisited)
    Kaia Findlay
    Anita has many close friends who defy all stereotypes about only children. But when it comes to thinking about having her own kids, she still can't shake some of those ingrained ideas. She hears three perspectives on single-kid families (including that of former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins) and learns why the debunked mythology around only children still lingers today.
  • An antique illustration of three men with facial hair out of the 1800s. The man on the left is sitting in a chair, holding a box in his lap and turning a crank on the box's side. On the righthand side of the illustration, one man is sitting in a fabric chair, leaning back with his eyes closed and his feet resting on a table in front of him with his knees bent at a 90 degree angle. The third man is holding a metal tube on the seated man's abdomen. The metal tube is connected by a wire to the box that the man on the left is cranking.
    Unpacking the past and discovering the future of vibrators
    Kaia Findlay
    Vibrators have been around since the 19th century. Before they were marketed primarily as sex toys, they were sold as general health devices 鈥� and now they鈥檝e become a tool for sexual health research.
  • An illustration featuring the word "Stimulated" in the center surrounded by different kinds and colors of vibrators. There is an orange dot pattern around the edges of the illustration.
    Stimulated: How Vibrators Became America's Favorite Sex Toy (Revisited)
    Kaia Findlay
    True or false? Victorian doctors invented the vibrator to cure women's "hysteria" by bringing them to sexual climax. The answer may surprise you ... as it did Anita! She gets the truth about vibrator history from journalist Hallie Lieberman and meets Anna Lee, the engineer behind the first-ever 鈥渟mart鈥� vibrator that can help you better understand your arousal patterns.
  • An illustration of a Black person鈥檚 hand holding up a diva cup that is a third full with dark red liquid. We see the hand from the wrist up. The background is filled with blobby shapes that range from brown-red to dark red to light pink in color. Some of the blobs have white outlines. The word 鈥淢enstruated鈥� is written in red text across the top left corner.
    Menstruated: What Our Period Blood Tells Us
    Paige Miranda
    In the 34 years that guest host Omisade Burney-Scott was a menstruating person, she always felt that blood held more significance than just the biological. She meets an OB/GYN who shares little-known facts about period blood, and talks with two menstrual health advocates about how art and community have connected them to their cycles. Plus, an attorney discusses what she's paying attention to this year in terms of period policy.
  • An illustration featuring a masculine-appearing person with their head in their hands. They're wearing a gray hoodie and have red squiggly lines branching out and up from their upper body. To the left is a thought bubble with a heart with a question mark in it. To the right is a thought bubble with two praying hands in it. In the bottom righthand corner of the illustration is a thought bubble with a bottle of poison tipped over, a match and a house on fire.
    Breaking the cycle of obsessive-compulsive disorder
    Kaia Findlay
    OCD often goes misdiagnosed and misunderstood 鈥� and if left untreated, can impact platonic, intimate and familial relationships in challenging ways.
  • An illustration featuring a masculine-appearing person with their head in their hands. They're wearing a gray hoodie and have red squiggly lines branching out and up from their upper body. To the left is a thought bubble with a heart with a question mark in it. To the right is a thought bubble with two praying hands in it. In the bottom righthand corner of the illustration is a thought bubble with a bottle of poison tipped over, a match and a house on fire. In the bottom lefthand corner of the illustration is the word "Obsessed."
    Obsessed: Breaking The OCD Cycle (Revisited)
    Kaia Findlay
    Anita is no stranger to anxiety, but her spirals are mostly short lived. In this episode she meets folks who often get caught in loops of extreme worry and compulsions with little relief. A married couple shares how OCD put them in survival mode and a woman whose OCD symptoms began in kindergarten talks about learning how to open up about her experience in friendships and dating.
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