1568 Celeste Headlee
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 41 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, friends, from Amsterdam for the final time. |
| 0:06.6 | I am very happy to have the great Celeste Headley joining me today. |
| 0:11.6 | Having a great time here in the Netherlands with Julia. |
| 0:15.1 | Thank you so much for your support. |
| 0:17.2 | There's still tickets to Podjam available. |
| 0:19.3 | If you want to join us next week in Vegas, |
| 0:21.1 | I hope you'll think about coming. I hope you've had a great week. And I am very happy to have |
| 0:26.6 | you here to listen to today's conversation. And yes, this is an intro. I'm actually |
| 0:32.5 | taping on Friday morning. So I did read about, of course, and hear about all the way over here |
| 0:37.4 | in Amsterdam that |
| 0:38.2 | Trump fired Attorney General Pambandi, which is no shock. And I am surprised that it wasn't worse |
| 0:45.0 | than that so far, but that's about all I've heard. And all I thought I was going to miss was the whole |
| 0:49.8 | idea that Christy Noam's husband liked to dress up like a large bosomed woman, but I guess I've |
| 0:56.3 | missed a little more than that. So it didn't get to talk about the week's news so much with Celeste Edley, |
| 1:01.0 | but we had a great conversation as always. I think you're going to love. So go check out her |
| 1:05.2 | new book. Go pre-order her new book that she mentions, of course, and support her in all the ways on social |
| 1:11.6 | media, on Instagram, on Blue Sky, and so much more. Let's do it right now with the always |
| 1:16.1 | amazing Celeste Headley. And remember, I can't do any of this without your support. Patreon.com |
| 1:22.0 | slash Pete Dominic. Oh, one of our favorite people to talk to. One of my favorite people |
| 1:27.4 | to talk to. She always my favorite people to talk to. |
| 1:28.0 | She always hits you right between the eyes. |
| 1:30.0 | Just questioned me in a way that made me feel uncomfortable and amazing at the same time. |
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