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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

554: How Doing Less Results in Achieving More with Celeste Headlee

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Education, Selfhelp, Thinking, Business, Mental Health, Mockaitis, Collaboration, Career, Speaking, Skills, Meaning, Decisions, Self-improvement, Wins, Health & Fitness, Interview, Fun, Success, Money, Sharpening, Development, Careers, Writing, Training, Winning

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Award-winning journalist and speaker Celeste Headlee shares how doing nothing can help you accomplish everything.


You'll Learn:

1) Why idleness isn’t laziness

2) What’s causing you burnout

3) The productivity benefits of shorter work hours


About Celeste:

Celeste Headlee is an award-winning journalist, professional speaker and author of Heard Mentality and We Need To Talk: How To Have Conversations That Matter. In her 20-year career in public radio, she has been the Executive Producer of On Second Thought at Georgia Public Radio and anchored programs including Tell Me More, Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered, 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’s TEDx Talk 10 ways to have a better conversation has over 19 million total views to date.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:16.0

Hello, and thanks for joining us for episode 554

0:22.0

with Celeste Hedley.

0:23.3

Celeste is sharing how doing less could actually result in you achieving more.

0:27.3

So you'll learn one, why idleness isn't laziness.

0:30.0

Two, what's causing you burnout, and three, the productivity benefits of shorter work hours.

0:35.6

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript, or the links to items we've referenced,

0:39.0

you can find that in your episode notes or description in your podcast app player of choice or visit

0:45.4

awesome at your job dot com slash E. 554. Here's Celeste's story.

0:50.0

Celeste Hedley is an award-winning journalist, professional speaker, and author of

0:53.4

her mentality and we need to talk. In her 20-year career in public radio, she has been the

0:58.2

executive producer of On Second Thought at Georgia Public Radio and anchored Programs, including Tell Me More, Talk

1:03.7

of the Nation, all things considered in a weekend edition.

1:06.1

She's also served as co-host of the National Morning News Show, The Takeaway from PRI and

1:10.9

WNYC, and anchored presidential coverage in 2012 for PBS world channel.

1:16.0

Celeste Teddex Talk 10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation has over 19 million total views to date.

1:22.0

Big thanks to Celeste for sharing her wisdom with us and

1:24.2

big thanks to our sponsors check them out. Now here's Celeste.

1:28.8

Celeste thanks for joining us here on the How to Be Awesome at your Job Podcast.

1:33.3

My pleasure, thanks for having me.

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