The Live and Let Live Show

Larry Rosen, founder and host of The Enemies Project, joins Live and Let Live to explore one of the defining challenges of our time: how do we stop seeing people on the other side as enemies?Larry has spent years bringing people with fiercely opposing political and moral views face-to-face—not to debate or force agreement, but to help them understand the human being sitting across from them. His work is rooted in a simple conviction: we cannot solve the world’s biggest problems while we hate each other. In this conversation, Robbie and Larry explore political polarization, empathy, conflict, manipulation, peacebuilding, tribalism, emotion, reason, spirituality, and the psychology of reconciliation. Larry explains what he calls the “enemy’s trance”—the way threat shuts down empathy and makes us vulnerable to believing the worst about other people—and how political and media “enemy makers” can exploit that tendency. Larry also walks through the practical method he uses with opposing participants: first, let them fight and express their authentic anger; then leave politics behind and reconnect as human beings; rebuild the political disagreement through that human understanding; and finally have each person switch roles and genuinely advocate for their supposed enemy. The conversation ultimately asks whether peace requires agreement at all—or whether the deeper task is learning to understand, respect, and cooperate with people whose beliefs may remain fundamentally different from our own.Live and Let Live is a movement grounded in the belief that peace on earth is possible when we commit to equal freedom under the law and choose to treat one another with excellence.Learn more about Live and Let Live:https://liveandletlive.org/Join the movement and stay connected:https://liveandletlive.org/get-involved/Support the mission with a donation:https://liveandletlive.org/donate/Learn more about Larry Rosen and The Enemies Project:https://www.enemiesproject.org/Watch The Enemies Project and support its work. Larry says attention is the most important resource the project needs as it tries to demonstrate that even people who see one another as enemies can rediscover the human being on the other side. Subscribe for more conversations on freedom, peace, human flourishing, and the Live and Let Live philosophy.In this video:05:25 – Larry’s Mission08:11 – Humanizing Enemies11:55 – The Enemy’s Trance14:29 – Selling Peace17:10 – America’s Polarization Trap20:24 – Healthy Conflict23:28 – Leaders and Empathy27:09 – Let Them Fight32:02 – Opposing Values37:13 – Reason and EmotionAbout Larry Rosen:Larry Rosen is the creator and host of The Enemies Project, a project that brings people with deeply opposing worldviews together in direct conversation to move beyond hatred and toward genuine understanding. His work is informed by years of conflict resolution and mediation, as well as his own experience growing up as both the bully and the bullied. Through The Enemies Project, Larry has found that when ordinary people are given the opportunity to move beyond threat and genuinely enter one another’s experience, reconciliation is remarkably common. In the interview, he describes the project’s success rate in generating greater goodwill as “nearly a hundred percent.” His broader goal is not to eliminate disagreement, but to help create a society capable of disagreeing without turning neighbors into enemies.

Victoria Hebbert joins Live and Let Live to explore one of the most consequential questions we can ask: what is education actually for?Having followed a conventional academic path through Cambridge and Oxford before working in education research and visiting more than 50 schools, Victoria ultimately became convinced that we need to rethink many of our assumptions about how children learn. Today, she home educates her own children and advocates for classical education, educational freedom, and a richer understanding of what it means to form a free and flourishing human being. Victoria Hebbert.txtRobbie and Victoria discuss homeschooling, classical education, parental rights, educational monopolies, freedom of choice, bureaucracy, childhood, AI, and the future of education. They explore why raising children is “civilizational work,” why education should develop the whole person rather than simply prepare someone for employment, and how greater freedom could unleash entirely new models of learning. Victoria also makes the case for an “unbundling” of education: a world in which families can draw upon different teachers, institutions, communities and approaches according to the needs of each individual child, rather than fitting every child through the same institutional system. Victoria Hebbert.txtLive and Let Live is a movement grounded in the belief that peace on earth is possible when we commit to equal freedom under the law and choose to treat one another with excellence.Learn more about Live and Let Live:⁠liveandletlive.orgJoin the movement and stay connected:⁠Get involved with Live and Let LiveSupport the mission with a donation:⁠Donate to Live and Let LiveJoin the movement and stay connected:⁠Get involved with Live and Let LiveSupport the mission with a donation:⁠Donate to Live and Let LiveLearn more about Victoria and Seatton Home Education:⁠ https://wyntham.com/Subscribe for more conversations on freedom, peace, human flourishing, and the Live and Let Live philosophy.In this video:00:00 – Victoria’s Story05:06 – Homeschooling Myths13:14 – What Is Education For?20:00 – Education in the AI Age22:54 – Educational Freedom32:19 – Why Choice Matters36:04 – Freedom Makes Us Human37:34 – Unbundling Education42:24 – Rethinking Childhood50:50 – A Better FutureAbout Victoria Hebbert:Victoria Hebbert is an educator, writer, and advocate for home and classical education. After studying at Cambridge and Oxford and working in education research, including work across more than 50 English schools, she began exploring alternatives to conventional schooling. Her experience also includes teaching Iraqi refugees in Syria. Victoria Hebbert.txtToday, Victoria home educates her own children and is the founder of Seatton Education, where she explores home education, classical education, the formation of children, and building an intellectual life at home. At the heart of her work is the belief that education should form the whole person and ultimately prepare children not merely for employment, but for freedom in its fullness.

Will Keller joins Live and Let Live to explore one of humanity’s oldest and most fundamental questions: is there an objective moral order built into reality, and what happens when we ignore it?In this conversation, Will explains his understanding of natural law—the idea that human freedom and flourishing arise from living in harmony with immutable principles rather than human authority or political power. He argues that many of society’s deepest problems stem not from bad intentions, but from ignorance of these underlying principles and the consequences that naturally follow from our choices.Robbie and Will discuss natural law, natural rights, morality, conscious parenting, free will, religion, occultism, authority, freedom, and the relationship between inner transformation and societal change. They also explore whether objective right and wrong exist, the dangers of ideological tribalism, the role of hidden knowledge throughout history, and why lasting freedom begins with individual responsibility.Live and Let Live is a movement grounded in the belief that peace on earth is possible when we commit to equal freedom under the law and choose to treat one another with excellence.Learn more about Live and Let Live:https://liveandletlive.org/Join the movement and stay connected:https://liveandletlive.org/get-involved/Support the mission with a donation:https://liveandletlive.org/donate/Learn more about Will Keller and his work:https://willkeller.com/Subscribe for more conversations on freedom, peace, human flourishing, and the Live and Let Live philosophy.In this video:• What natural law is and why it matters• The relationship between natural rights and freedom• Why morality cannot be created by governments• Conscious parenting and the formation of human values• Objective morality versus moral relativism• Religion, spirituality, and the search for truth• Hidden knowledge, occultism, and personal responsibility• Why ideological tribalism divides humanity• The relationship between inner transformation and societal change• How individuals can help create a freer and more peaceful worldAbout Will Keller:Will Keller is a researcher, educator, and public speaker whose work focuses on natural law, objective morality, human consciousness, and the philosophical foundations of freedom. Through lectures, presentations, and educational content, he explores the relationship between human behavior, natural rights, and societal transformation, encouraging individuals to better understand themselves, reality, and their role in creating a more just and harmonious world.

Sol Aquino Tinio, founder of the Heart of Sol Foundation and a Live and Let Live Ambassador, joins Robbie Miles to explore how freedom, servant leadership, entrepreneurship, and human excellence can help build a more peaceful world.Sol explains why the two principles of Live and Let Live—Don’t Aggress and Be an Excellent Human—immediately resonated with her own philosophy of life. For Sol, every individual is unique and deserving of the freedom to pursue their own path, while great leadership begins with treating others with kindness, compassion, generosity, and respect.In this conversation, Sol shares her remarkable journey from arriving in America from the Philippines with her mother, a backpack, $20, and a dream, to building a career, competing in Miss Philippines USA, and founding the Heart of Sol Foundation. She explains how witnessing her mother’s pursuit of the American Dream shaped her belief in freedom and opportunity—and inspired her mission to empower the next generation of leaders.Robbie and Sol also explore what servant leadership looks like in practice, why financial independence matters for people who want to make a difference, and Sol’s ambitious vision for a leadership development pipeline combining civic leadership, entrepreneurship, financial education, international collaboration, and real-world service projects.They discuss how Live and Let Live could collaborate with the Heart of Sol Foundation, particularly by helping young people understand self-sovereignty, freedom, entrepreneurship, moral excellence, and how peaceful changes to law and society can expand human opportunity.Learn more about Heart of Sol Foundation:https://www.heartofsolfoundation.org/Learn more about Live and Let Live:https://liveandletlive.org/Join the movement and stay connected:https://liveandletlive.org/get-involved/Explore the 3L Engine:https://engine.liveandletlive.org/In this video:00:00 – Why 3L Resonated03:17 – War and Coercion05:59 – Entrepreneurship and Freedom11:55 – Sol’s Story18:30 – Heart of Sol20:05 – Servant Leadership22:01 – Developing Young Leaders27:33 – A Peaceful World32:01 – Financial Empowerment37:24 – 3L and Heart of SolAbout Sol Aquino Tinio:Sol Aquino Tinio is an entrepreneur, community leader, and Live and Let Live Ambassador for the Philippines. After moving from the Philippines to the United States as a child, Sol built a varied career spanning business, creative work, aviation, pageantry, and community leadership. She was named Miss Philippines USA Tourism and First Runner-Up at Miss Philippines USA before founding the Heart of Sol Foundation.Her vision is to empower the next generation to become leaders of a better world through servant leadership, financial empowerment, entrepreneurship, international collaboration, and service to others. As Sol puts it, everyone deserves the opportunity to shine—and we don’t need to dim somebody else’s light to make our own brighter.

Dr. Joseph Tainter joins Live and Let Live to explore one of the most profound questions in history: why do civilizations rise, become increasingly complex, and sometimes collapse?In this conversation, Joseph explains his influential theory that societies solve problems by becoming more complex—but that complexity itself carries growing costs. He explores why civilizations often experience diminishing returns on their investments in bureaucracy, regulation, technology, and institutions, and why understanding these long-term patterns is essential for navigating today’s economic, environmental, and political challenges.Robbie and Joseph discuss the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, complexity theory, energy, innovation, sustainability, regulation, government growth, supply chains, artificial intelligence, and how societies can adapt without suffering catastrophic collapse. They also explore the role of fossil fuels in modern prosperity, the limits of technological optimism, and why history offers valuable lessons for building more resilient institutions.Live and Let Live is a movement grounded in the belief that peace on earth is possible when we commit to equal freedom under the law and choose to treat one another with excellence.Learn more about Live and Let Live:https://liveandletlive.org/Join the movement and stay connected:https://liveandletlive.org/get-involved/Support the mission with a donation:https://liveandletlive.org/donate/Learn more about Joseph Tainter’s work:https://josephtainter.com/Subscribe for more conversations on freedom, peace, human flourishing, and the Live and Let Live philosophy.In this video:• Why civilizations become increasingly complex• The hidden costs of bureaucracy and problem-solving• The rise and fall of the Roman Empire• Complexity, energy, and economic growth• Diminishing returns and societal resilience• Innovation, technology, and the future of prosperity• Fossil fuels, sustainability, and energy transitions• Global supply chains and systemic vulnerability• Artificial intelligence and the next wave of complexity• What history teaches us about avoiding collapseAbout Dr. Joseph Tainter:Dr. Joseph Tainter is an archaeologist, anthropologist, and historian best known for his groundbreaking book The Collapse of Complex Societies. His research explores how civilizations evolve, why they become increasingly complex, and the economic and energetic forces that shape their long-term sustainability. Over several decades, his work has influenced scholars across archaeology, economics, history, environmental studies, and systems thinking, making him one of the world’s leading authorities on societal collapse and resilience.His book, 'The Collapse of Complex Societies': https://www.amazon.com/dp/052138673X