PitchCentric

General

Invisibilia

Hosted by NPR · General · EN

Website

About this Podcast:

Unseeable forces control human behavior and shape our ideas, beliefs, and assumptions. Invisibilia—Latin for invisible things—fuses narrative storytelling with science that will make you see your own life differently.

Pitch Analysis

Required Pod Score for this podcast. PitchCentric checks your profile against host openness, topical fit, and audience signals before you generate a pitch.

Contact path

Public web form

Booking probability

30%

Guest openness

Selective

80/100
Required Score

Sign up to generate a grounded pitch for Invisibilia.

Signup to Generate a Pitch

Questions about Invisibilia

What is Invisibilia about?

Unseeable forces control human behavior and shape our ideas, beliefs, and assumptions. Invisibilia, Latin for invisible things, fuses narrative storytelling with science that will make you see your own life differently.

Who hosts Invisibilia?

Invisibilia is hosted by NPR. The show has published 89 episodes to date.

What has Invisibilia covered recently?

Recent episodes include ""The Network" from NPR's Embedded" (17 July 2025), "Alternate Realities from NPR's Embedded" (24 February 2025), and "Tested (Ep 2): Questions of a Physical Nature" (22 August 2024).

How often does Invisibilia publish?

Invisibilia publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 1 minute across 89 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Invisibilia?

Booking probability for Invisibilia is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Invisibilia requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Invisibilia's contact route on record: public web form.

About the host

NPR hosts Invisibilia, a general podcast with 89 episodes published.

Host email not verified for this podcastSign in to unlock →

Recent episodes

Our AI reads these to draft pitches. Use them as grounding for a pitch that cites a real guest and a specific topic.

  • Jul 17, 2025—S0

    <p>New from NPR's Embedded: Hosts Victoria Estrada and Marta Martinez travel across Latin America and within the U.S. to understand how women in Brazil discovered one of the medications that's used for self-managed...

  • Feb 24, 2025—S0

    <p>New from NPR's Embedded: Reporter Zach Mack thinks his dad has gone all in on conspiracy theories, while his father thinks that Zach is the one being brainwashed. In 2024, after the latest round of circular...

  • Aug 22, 2024—S0

    <p>We go back almost 100 years, to the beginning of women's inclusion in elite sports. It turns out that men had an odd variety of concerns about women athletes. Some doubted these athletes were even women at all. And...

  • Aug 22, 2024—S0

    <p>New from NPR's Embedded podcast and CBC in Canada: Would you alter your body for the chance to compete for a gold medal? That's the question facing a small group of elite athletes right now. Last year, track and...

  • Invisibilia

    Farewell

    Feb 22, 20241 minS0

    <p>An important message from RadioPublic</p>

View More
  • Jun 23, 2023—S10

    <p>If you're a kid and a terrible thing happens, what do you do to feel safe? If you're an adult, how do you offer guidance to the kids when you can't even make sense of what's happened—and when it's your job to act as...

  • Apr 27, 2023—S10

    <p>In their final episode, Invisibilia searches for the right way to say goodbye.<br/><br/>Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices<br/><br/>NPR Privacy Policy</p>

  • Episode #5

    Power Tools

    Oct 7, 2022—S9

    <p>Bad bosses. Obnoxious coworkers. Unfair compensation. There are so many reasons people feel disempowered in the workplace. But how can our feelings about power enable or disrupt the larger dynamics we hate at work...

  • Episode #4

    Freedom Diving

    Sep 30, 2022—S9

    <p>After months of working from home and retreating from the world, Kia Miakka Natisse is stuck - in her house, and in her head. In an attempt to break out of the funk, she's searching for wisdom at the bottom of the...

  • Sep 23, 2022—S9

    <p>In San Jose, California, a community clinic was stumped as to why their clients were seeing ghosts. This week, a story about grappling with ghosts of our past and one clinic's attempt to heal intergenerational...

  • Sep 16, 2022—S9

    <p>This week on Invisibilia, could the rebrand of a familiar pill open up a new way to control fertility in a post-Roe America?<br/><br/>Learn more about sponsor message choices...

  • Episode #1

    The P-Word

    Sep 9, 2022—S9

    <p>Alex is a comic who feels perfectly comfortable commanding a packed, rowdy audience, but consistently submits to what other people want in everyday life. This week, a look at how uncomfortable feelings about power...

  • Sep 6, 2022—S9

    <p>2022 feels like walking a tightrope. We're grappling with control of our bodies, our time, the direction of our country - while trying to not spin out and just doomscroll. So this season, Invisibilia takes on...

  • Nov 4, 2021—S8

    <p>Would you ever consider going to therapy with a friend?Two best friends who call themselves brothers were drifting apart, so they asked psychotherapist Esther Perel to help — and we listened in. This episode was...

  • Episode #5

    Poop Friends

    Oct 28, 2021—S8

    <p>Sh*t happens. So why is it so hard to talk about? This week, the ways that poop divides and binds us in our friendships.<br/><br/>Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices<br/><br/>NPR...

  • Oct 21, 2021—S8

    <p>A lot of us think that it's a bad idea to get physical with friends. We worry it'll get messy, maybe even ruin the friendship. But if physical intimacy between friends weren't so taboo, what could our friendships...

  • Sep 30, 2021—S8

    <p>You know the old saying--keep your friends close and your enemies closer. But what if you can't tell the difference? In this episode, the story of two friends who got caught up in a Top Secret operation that tested...

  • Sep 23, 2021—S8

    <p>It's a basic tenet of friendship that you get to choose your friends. We look at two institutions that took away that choice: convents circa the 1960s and a summer program with unusual rules. What do we lose and what...

Best industries to pitch Invisibilia for

Based on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this podcast is a strong guest fit for executives in:

Generalstrong

Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the podcast's episode catalog.

Similar Podcasts

Shows with the most semantically similar episode content. Pitch one, pitch all; producers cluster.

Podcasts like Invisibilia

Is this podcast yours and you'd like to remove or correct details? Request removal or email privacy@pitchcentric.com.

Questions about the free trial? See the pricing FAQ