1395 Celeste Headlee + News & Clips

Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

Pete Dominick

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4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 81 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, hello, and welcome to today's episode of Stand Up.
0:06.2	I've got an amazing guest joining me today.
0:08.3	It's the great Celeste Headley.
0:10.1	She is one of the all-time faves here on the show, former NPR, former a lot of things.
0:16.2	Celeste has written several books.
0:18.0	It's just turned in another one.
0:19.7	I'm real excited to share my
0:21.2	very thoughtful, thought-provoking conversation with Celeste with you today. If you want to get
0:27.3	to it, jump to it, that conversation begins at 36 minutes. But first, I've got a whole bunch
0:33.6	of headlines and a bit of a clip show for you. And so let's jump into it.
0:38.9	And a reminder tonight, I will host a hangout. It's Thursday night. Looking forward to this one,
0:44.2	because I will have plenty to throw out to you. And I'm very excited to hear back from you on all of it.
0:52.9	If you haven't watched Monday nights hang out,
0:55.2	a lot of really good points made by listeners and subscribers, such smart folks, listening and
1:00.0	contributing, and I am so honored to have you here. We talk to the smartest people we can
1:05.7	find, and that tends to curate an audience of curious, intellectually curious folks. So let's get to the news,
1:13.8	which I'm sure you're tapped pretty closely into in the clips. And if you're not, I've got it right
1:20.2	here for you every morning, usually by 7 a.m. And I've got to lead today's news headlines with the story continuing to come out and as a
1:30.9	result of the floods in Texas. And now, by the way, in New Mexico, too, there's still 173 people
1:36.3	missing in Texas. Authorities have confirmed at least 119 deaths across six counties,
1:40.7	including 59 adults and 36 children. That's as of 8 p.m. or so last night, I'm sure that's going to go up.
1:47.7	And then if you go to New Mexico, there was brutal flooding there.
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