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Elaine Appleton Grant

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The Art of the Interview with Conversation Expert Celeste Headlee

6/8/2023 • 49 min

Do high-stakes interviews make you nervous? Do you want to communicate better across partisan, racial, or gender divides? Or do you want to make any interview you conduct more compelling? You couldn't ask for a better teacher than Celeste Headlee. A best-selling author and global speaker, this veteran NPR reporter and host has interviewed everyone from presidents to KKK members to authors like Toni Morrison and John Updike. She's also literally written THE books on the art of conversation. Her TED talk, "10 Ways to Have Better Conversations," has been viewed 38 million times. Today, she is the host of the Slate debate podcast, Hear Me Out. In this episode, you'll learn how to interview people who hold vastly different beliefs than you do; how to have illuminating conversations, not confrontations; a helpful mindset shift for when you're nervous about conducting a hostile or difficult interview; and the brain science that explains what makes a good conversation (prepare to have some myths busted), and more strategies that serious audio creators can put to good use in their own work immediately.

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