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🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 107 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 | When did white men become victims? |
| 0:03.0 | White men actually think they lose in the country. |
| 0:06.0 | Tohoo! |
| 0:08.0 | It ain't us! |
| 0:11.0 | When's the last time you got on a black cruise ship? |
| 0:15.0 | I flew on a black airline. |
| 0:18.0 | What the fuck out of here? We don't got no money. |
| 0:22.4 | We got some vodka and a couple of record companies. |
| 0:26.5 | White men |
| 0:27.4 | actually think |
| 0:28.6 | they lose in the country. |
| 0:30.9 | Do you believe, did you see the capital |
| 0:32.5 | riots? White men |
| 0:34.3 | trying to overthrow the government |
| 0:36.3 | that they run. |
| 0:40.9 | Yeah, that is the great Chris Rock from his 2023 stand-up special selective outrage. |
| 0:49.3 | I am Pete Dominic coming at you a little late because last night I hosted our hangout till about 11 o'clock. |
| 0:57.9 | I'm thinking about bringing it back down to one night a week of hangouts Thursday nights. |
| 1:04.0 | It's a lot. |
| 1:05.9 | And here I am late again. |
| 1:08.1 | I don't know. |
| 1:09.0 | I don't know. |
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