1531 Celeste Headlee tells us the truth
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Celeste Headlee is an internationally recognized journalist and radio host, professional speaker and author of bestselling book We Need To Talk: How To Have Conversations That Matter, Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving, Speaking of Race: Why Everyone Needs to Talk About Racism and How to Do It, and You're Cute When You're Mad: Simple Steps for Confronting Sexism. Her TEDx Talk, 10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation, has been viewed over 34 million times. Close to 50,000 talks have been given at 10,000 events since the TED program launched in 2009, and Celeste's talk is one of the 10 most-watched talks posted on TED's homepage.
In her 20-year career in public radio, Celeste has been the Executive Producer of On Second Thought at Georgia Public Broadcasting and anchored programs including Tell Me More, Talk of the Nation, Here and Now, All Things Considered, 1A, and Weekend Edition. She also served as co-host of the national morning news show, The Takeaway, from PRI and WNYC, and anchored presidential coverage in 2012 for PBS World Channel. Celeste is a regular guest host on NPR and American Public Media, serves as an advisory board member for ProCon.org and The Listen First Project, and received the 2019 Media Changemaker Award.
She is the host of "Women Amplified," a podcast from the Conferences for Women, the largest network of women's conferences in the nation, drawing more than 50,000 people to its annual events.
Celeste is also the president and CEO of Headway DEI, a non-profit that works to bring racial justice and equity to journalism and media through targeted training and interventions, and she serves on the board of the National Center for Race Amity. Celeste is the granddaughter of composer William Grant Still, known as the Dean of Black American Composers and she is a trained operatic soprano. She lives in the DC area with her rescue dog, Samus Aran.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my friends. I am so glad you're here, and I was so happy to see so many of you last night at our subscriber hangout. |
| 0:09.6 | Thank you to everybody who came. I will put a link in the show notes for paid subscribers. |
| 0:14.4 | If you want to watch or relive it, I am going to get right to my guest today. |
| 0:20.7 | It's Celeste Headley. |
| 0:21.8 | She is one of our favorites of all times. |
| 0:24.2 | She is now actually a professor. |
| 0:26.4 | She's an academic now at Morgan State University in Maryland. |
| 0:30.6 | And of course, she is a longtime journalist and author who has had a very impressive career, one of the most impressive journalists I know out there. |
| 0:39.9 | And I've been listening and talking to her for years now. You should get all of her books, |
| 0:44.9 | including Speaking of Race, We Need to Talk and Do Nothing. Support her and follow her on |
| 0:50.7 | Instagram and Facebook and everywhere else. Her website is Celesteheadley.com. We covered all the latest. I always love to get her perspective. You can watch |
| 0:59.9 | this if you want. We were live on YouTube.com slash standup at P. And remember, I can't do any of these |
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| 1:13.9 | subscription now, patreon.com slash Pete Dominic. Okay, let's do it right now with the always awesome. |
| 1:19.8 | Celeste Headley. Look who it is. Surprise, surprise. I did tell people who our subscribers are on our |
| 1:25.0 | Discord platform. Heads up. It's the great, the one the only |
| 1:27.9 | Celeste Seles Headley at 330, Professor Hadley, because now she's a Hawaii, Toaddy, academic. And congratulations. How's it going, Professor? Thank you for joining me today. It's good. I was always hoity-toity. That's the first thing people say about me is how fancy I am. Yeah. But now I'm a waity-twity academic. |
| 1:43.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:44.1 | Things are going fine. |
| 1:45.1 | It's a bureaucracy. |
| 1:46.1 | I'm at Morgan State. |
| 1:47.0 | It's the third largest HBCU. I am. Yeah. But now I'm a waity-twity academic. Yeah. Things are going fine. |
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