Celeste Headlee
President & CEO, Headway DEI. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Celeste Headlee is a veteran public media journalist and author of books including We Need to Talk and Do Nothing. Over her career, she co-hosted PRI/WNYC's The Takeaway and delivered the viral TEDx talk "10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation".
1shows
1appearances
36statements
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6supported
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86%fully supported
Everything Celeste Headlee said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Headlee: Stories Require Continuous Momentum Without Gaps to Keep Listeners Engaged
“She used to say that a story is like a shark. It has to keep moving forward or it dies, right? Or you can imagine it as a trapeze, where the listener, you have to provide that next rung for the listener. There can't be any gaps or they fall.”
Headlee: Public radio is full of navel-gazers constantly analyzing themselves
“You know, NPR is, public radio is full of naval gazers. We are constantly examining success and failure and, you know, staring inside of our belly buttons.”
Headlee: Effective conversation requires an equal balance of talking and listening
“The best model for a good conversation is a friendly game of catch. And there's a number of reasons for that. The most obvious is that in a game of catch, you can't throw more than you catch. It's a perfectly even balance between throwing and catching, just as…”
Headlee: People leave less than half a second before responding in conversation
“They did this global survey of how much time we spent, we leave in between one person ending a sentence and the other person responding, and it comes out to less than half a second”
Hearing Opposing Views Spoken Humanizes Opponents More Than Reading Them
“Just late last year, Nicholas Epley in Chicago and his colleagues released this study in which
they were looking at people and how they absorb opinions they don't agree with, and they found out that when you read an opinion you don't agree with in any format…”
Headlee: Talking About Yourself Triggers The Brain's Pleasure Centers
“In, in 2014, Harvard released this study in which they discovered that talking about yourself activates the same pleasure center in the brain as sex and heroin.”
Headlee: Ensemble musicians must continuously listen to peers, not just conductors
“If you're playing in an orchestra You can't just watch the conductor, right, who's keeping the beat. You have to actually listen to everyone around you. For tuning, you have to be very careful about shifts in tuning, because both choirs and instrumental groups…”
Headlee: Classical Music Radio Hosting Demands Rare Specialized Domain Knowledge
“Finding classical music hosts, as it turns out, is quite difficult because they have to have all the skills of any other radio host, but then they also have to have very specialized knowledge That allows them to pronounce all those names and works properly. Th…”
Headlee: Coach David Candow shaped NPR's signature on-air sound
“He was from Newfoundland, and he was so instrumental in the crafting of the NPR sound. He trained and mentored so many of NPR's anchors and hosts that we used to call him the host whisperer.”
Headlee: Specific color descriptions make audio storytelling more vivid
“Colors are really powerful to the ear. Don't tell us she was wearing a heavy jacket. Say she was wearing a heaven, a heavy fuchsia jackdown jacket, right, with green and purple and pink. Those are really loud when you hear them.”
Headlee: Radio broadcasting is fundamentally about people talking about people
“Radio is people talking to people about people. And it doesn't matter if it's an story about Wall Street or the military or whatever it is. In the end, it is people talking to other people about yet other people.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Celeste's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 KNOWLEDGE PROJECTLEDGER | President & CEO, Headway DEI | 1 | 36 | 86% 6/7 | full record on the Knowledge Project → |