Have Tough Conversations with Celeste Headlee (ep. 442)

Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary

John O'Leary

Self-improvement, Bestsellingauthor, Education, Dailyinspiration, Society & Culture, Liveinspired, Johnoleary, Inspiration, Joebuck, Inspiredliving, Onfire, Relationships

4.9 • 672 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Celeste Headlee is an award-winning journalist who has appeared on PBS, the BBC and NPR’s Tell Me More, Talk of the Nation, and All Things Considered. With over 25 years of on-air radio experience, Celeste has a unique perspective on what makes for a good conversation.

Today, Celeste joins us to illuminate the path forward in having conversations (even difficult ones!) that actually matter.

In a time when there seems to be an abundance of talking at rather than talking with, today’s conversation is captivating, engaging and worthwhile, and emphasizes the importance of having real conversations with people on all sides of every equation.

Learn more about the Live Inspired Podcast at JohnOLearyInspires.com/podcast.

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0:00.0	Well, look, Dad, your friend is building it.
0:04.5	My friends, we were downtown driving around the new soccer stadium that is being built right here in St. Louis, Missouri, when my son, Patrick, yelled that out from the backseat of the car.
0:15.1	Look, Dad, your friends are building it.
0:17.5	He was referring to my friends at Keely Companies.
0:20.1	Keely Companies is proud to be
0:21.9	a part of the team that is bringing major league soccer to America's first soccer capital right here
0:28.2	in St. Louis, Missouri. As construction partners of the St. Louis City Stadium, they are looking
0:33.2	forward for this project to be a place for entertainment, camaraderie, and passion for generations
0:38.9	to come. You can learn more about that project and look what else they're building dad by
0:43.9	visiting them right now online at keeliecompanies.com. Welcome to the Live Inspired podcast with
0:53.4	John O'Leary.
0:54.6	John is the number one national bestselling author of the book On Fire.
0:59.0	He's a world-class inspirational speaker, and he's the host of the Live-inspired podcast.
1:04.0	John interviews extraordinary individuals on their life story so that you can wake up from accidental living and more fully live your life
1:12.9	story. Here's your host, John O'Leary. Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired
1:20.8	podcast with John O'Leary. I'm going to begin this episode with the guests that you are going to
1:26.5	fall in love with by the end of it. I promise you that by sharing with you first one of the most instrumental books and guiding me forward as a leader, but also as a human being.
1:38.0	Stephen Covey wrote a book a couple decades ago called The Seven Habits of Highly Effect effective people. Many of you have read it.
1:46.1	The fifth habit, it's one that I love. It's called seek first to understand and then to be
1:53.8	understood. That I think in life seems so obvious. But then again, my friends, so often in life would seem so obvious are also the
2:03.1	things that we miss, the things that are right in front of us, the things that if we observed
2:07.1	and if we acted upon would radically change both our lives and the lives of those we encounter.
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