Videos
Watch interviews, TED talks, documentary clips, and full recordings of Living Room Conversations

LRC Live: A Potluck Across Generations
Watch the recording of LRC Live: A Potluck Across Generations, where members of our Staff and Youth Council engaged in a casual, intergenerational conversation. It’s

The 2020 Election – Moving Forward Together
Highlights from our 2020 Election: Moving Forward Together #LivingRoomConversation featuring: Marianne Williamson – @marwilliamson Grover Norquist – @GroverNorquist Pedro Silva – @noroof John Wood, Jr.

Forgiveness Living Room Conversations Highlights
This Living Room Conversation about Forgiveness was inspired by The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times written by Anita L. Sanchez.

Living Room Conversations and MADA on Glenn Beck discuss Coronavirus Conversations
The founders of Make America Dinner Again and Living Room Conversations have teamed up to start a new kind of “Coronavirus Conversation.” They tell Glenn

Pastor Uses Living Room Conversations to keep his Community Connected Safely
Learn how Pastor Pedro Silva is using Living Room Conversations to stay connected despite physical distancing amidst this global pandemic.

The Golden Rule in Politics – Conversation Highlights
This video shares highlights from a 90 minute Living Room Conversation on The Golden Rule in Politics. Watch the video here, or click on the image

Talking about immigration, across the political divide (short)
CNN filmed a 90 minute conversation with Democrats and Republicans talking about immigration and hosted by “Living Room Conversations” in North Carolina. Watch the video

How the American immigrant experience crosses political lines (full video)
CNN filmed a 90 minute conversation with Democrats and Republicans talking about immigration hosted by Living Room Conversations in South Carolina.

FOX24 Charleston: Great Conversations Happen in the Living Room
MT. PLEASANT, SC (FOX24 NEWS NOW) – Since the beginning of 2019, Charleston County Public Libraries have hosted a Series in partnership with the

The America We Want to Be
On April 13, 2019, Thomas Jefferson’s 276th birthday, Living Room Conversations and America Indivisible partnered to host a conversation: The America That We Want to

Joan Blades on the power of a few to shift culture through conversation
Joan Blades references ‘The 3.5%’ Rule’ at the end of our conversation. Political scientist Erika Chenoweth at Harvard found that just this sliver of the population,


Meet Your Library: Living Room Conversations
Take the conversation out of your living room and share your opinion at the library. This new program is bringing together people with different viewpoints

Celebrating Political Diversity
Watch the talk given at the Wisdom 2.0 Conference by Joan Blades of Living Room Conversations and John Gable of AllSides.

Race and Ethnicity: Highlights
Watch the highlights of our new in-depth three part conversation series on Race and Ethnicity. You can check out the conversation guides for the series here.

FULL VIDEO: Race & Ethnicity Part 1
Part 1 of our three-part conversation series on Race & Ethnicity.

FULL VIDEO: Race & Ethnicity Part 2
Part 2 of our three-part conversation series on Race & Ethnicity.

FULL VIDEO: Race & Ethnicity Part 3
A wrap up of our three-part conversation series on Race & Ethnicity.

Money in Politics with Robert Reich and Debbie Dooley
A conversation co-hosted by Tea Party Patriots co-founder Debbie Dooley and President Clinton’s former Secretary of Labor and UC Berkeley professor Robert Reich.

SALON: When MoveOn met the Tea Party
Watch the Salon interview with Joan Blades of Living Room Conversations. Image links to Salon website.

LRC at TED: Free Yourself from your Filter Bubbles
Watch the talk given by Joan Blades from Living Room Conversations and John Gable of AllSides at the TEDWomen Conference. Image links to TED website.


Clip 2: American Creed (PBS Documentary)
Watch Joan Blades, co-founder of both Living Room Conversations and MoveOn.org, discuss unlikely friendships.

Forgiveness
Watch our “Forgiveness” Living Room Conversation with Anita L. Sanchez, the author of The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times. You can check

Affordable Housing
Watch our video from our Affordable Housing and the American Dream Living Room Conversation.



Podcasts
Joan Blades: Grassroots Organizer, Culture Change-Maker, Nonprofit Founder
Click on the image below to listen to Joan’s interview with Awakin. Joan Blades is an “accidental activist” at the forefront of movements that have
Peace-Building Through Conversation with Joan Blades (Relate with Patrick McAndrew)
Joan Blades, co-founder of Living Room Conversations, joins us in episode 107 of Relate. In this episode, we discuss the importance of approaching conversations with
Heart, Empowerment & Effective Action with Joan Blades
Could heart, empowerment and conscious effectiveness be the pillars to aligning as a society and making progress on the issues that matter to us
A Year of Listening: Listening Across Differences
Author Colleen K. Powell interview’s Living Room Conversations’ own Tracy Hollister about the relationships she has developed across political and cultural divides, and why listening to
Healing Divides with Joan Blades of Living Room Conversations and MoveOn
Joan Blades founder of MoveOn and MomsRising joins The Great Battlefield podcast. Joan talks about how her latest passion, Living Room Conversations, is helping people
Race and Ethnicity: Part 3
Listen to Part 3 (the wrap-up) in our Race and Ethnicity Conversation Series. If you enjoyed this podcast, we invite you to: Try these Conversations
Race and Ethnicity: Part 2
Listen to Part 2 in our Race and Ethnicity Conversation Series. If you enjoyed this podcast, we invite you to: Try these Conversations yourself— explore
Race and Ethnicity: Part 1
Listen to the first of our new three-part series on Race and Ethnicity. If you enjoyed this podcast, we invite you to: Try these Conversations
Living Room Conversations: Can A New “Parlor” Game Heal the Divide?
Listen to the podcast here A Conversation With Living Room Conversations Co-Founder Joan Blades “When we connect personally, we don’t take things poisonally.” — Swami
Indivisible: Sam Ball and Joan Blades on the American Creed
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS Can’t we all just get along? That’s the hope of Sam Ball, the director of the new documentary film, American Creed,
Talking Politics
In this conversation, we explore our own experience about how we learned to talk about politics . . . or to avoid it. We are
Righteousness or Relationships?
Talking about… righteousness or relationships? Disagreeing about what is right and good (or wrong and bad) can be challenging. Our culture has evolved to reward