1611 Celeste Headlee + news & clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Celeste and I start at 28 mins
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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 | Stand up. |
| 0:02.1 | Hello, friends. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to today's episode, Stand Up, where one of our favorites, Celeste Headley joins me coming up. |
| 0:07.9 | If you want to jump to my interview with Celeste, it begins at 28 minutes. |
| 0:12.5 | Also, should mention, I should be live around 1030 with the great Christian Finnegan wrapping up the week. |
| 0:18.1 | Finnegan Fridays, always fun. |
| 0:20.2 | You can watch that on Substack and YouTube at Stand Up with Pete. |
| 0:24.9 | And I want to thank everybody who joined me last night at The Hangout. |
| 0:29.4 | We had a great time, great hang, lots of fun, a couple of hours. |
| 0:32.7 | Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:34.2 | And I am always looking forward to the next one. If you're not a paid |
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| 1:06.7 | There you go. |
| 1:07.4 | All right. |
| 1:07.9 | Let's get to the headlines that I've got for you. |
| 1:09.9 | Lots going on in the world, as there always is. |
| 1:12.1 | I've got a clip show and then my conversation with Celeste. |
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