1214 Celeste Headlee + News and Clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Celeste Headlee is an award-winning journalist, professional speaker and author of We Need To Talk: How To Have Conversations That Matter, and Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving. An expert in conversation, human nature, reclaiming common humanity and finding well-being, Celeste frequently provides insight on what is good for all humans and what is bad for us, focusing the best research in neuro and social science to increase understanding of how we relate with one another and can work together in beneficial ways in our workplaces, neighborhoods, communities and homes. She is a regular guest host on NPR and American Public Media and a highly sought consultant, advising companies around the world on conversations about race, diversity and inclusion. Her TEDx Talk sharing 10 ways to have a better conversation has over 23 million total views, and she serves as an advisory board member for ProCon.org and The Listen First Project. Celeste is recipient of the 2019 Media Changemaker Award. Her new book, Speaking of Race will be released in November, 2021. She is the proud granddaughter of composer William Grant Still, the Dean of African American Composers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my friends. Welcome to another excellent episode of Stand Up with Pete Domic |
| 0:06.9 | Daily. I've got the great Celeste Headley joining me and she does not disappoint. Brilliant and |
| 0:12.2 | hilarious. We had an awesome conversation as that begins at 23 minutes. But I do just want to make a |
| 0:18.6 | little announcement here. I want to let everybody know that I am |
| 0:22.0 | canceling my plans to go to swing states in these final couple of weeks of the election for several |
| 0:29.7 | reasons. But anybody who gave me money, I will be sending that back to you. Almost everybody |
| 0:34.0 | gave it through Venmo. I'll send that back. If you did not get your money back |
| 0:38.0 | by the end of Monday, let me know, and I'll be on it. No harm, no foul. And thank you. I'm so |
| 0:43.6 | grateful to everybody who is supporting me on that. The entire idea came from Ben Wickler of Wisconsin, |
| 0:49.7 | who is this really smart political strategist. I heard him on a podcast. He said the best thing you could do is go to swing states. |
| 0:56.2 | I did it. |
| 0:56.7 | I went to Nevada. |
| 0:57.7 | And frankly, I just didn't feel like it was worth the effort that I made. |
| 1:02.6 | I had all kinds of grandiose ideas. |
| 1:05.2 | But I think the best thing that I can do is this work that I'm doing and doubling down on it. So I've got some plans of what I'm |
| 1:13.6 | going to be doing each and every day here on the show and how we can help each other. But if I have |
| 1:19.4 | one major weakness fault in my work and my character, it's well, like everybody, I have several, |
| 1:25.0 | but I'm focused on overpromising and under delivering. It was just too like everybody, I have several, but I'm focused on over-promising and under-delivering. |
| 1:29.3 | It was just too daunting. |
| 1:31.2 | And I finally made decision tonight to call it off, and I felt relieved. |
| 1:36.1 | And I am very, very grateful to everybody who's supporting me. |
| 1:39.5 | I just think that the most important thing that someone like me can do is the actual work that I do all day. |
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