Richard Albertson
Founding President
Richard Albertson is the Founding President of Live the Life, a faith based non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening marriages and families. Richard launched Live the Life in the back of his townhouse in 1998.
With its Corporate headquarters in Tallahassee Florida, Live the Life has steadily grown and added regional offices in Jacksonville, Orlando, Panama City, Tallahassee, and San Antonio, TX. In 2025 it will be opening new regional offices in Grand Rapids MI, and Wichita, KS.
Live the Life has provided programs and services in 16 countries and 39 states to date, and is recognized internationally in the marriage and relationship education field. Since 2011 we have served more than 186,000 individuals with relationship and marriage education programs, and have documented more than 5,600 saved marriages, saving taxpayers $227 million.
Richard is Board Chair and co-Founder of the National Alliance for Relationship and Marriage Education (NARME). He authored NARME’s charter in 2010, which has been adopted by community organizations and practitioners from 28 states to date.
Two Governors have appointed Richard to multiple statewide positions, including the Florida Commission on Marriage and Family Support, the Florida Commission on Responsible Fatherhood, and the Florida Faith-Based Advisory Council. Richard was elected chair of all three entities. He also served as Board member of the National Abstinence Education Association, which was rebranded as Ascend.
Richard is the author of multiple marriage and family curricula including Adventures in Marriage, Marriage Matters, Family Frontiers, Start Smart, Champions, and Hope Weekend.
Richard’s background includes working for two U.S. Presidents. He served as a campaign fundraiser and media assistant at a political action committee working on Ronald Reagan’s re-election campaign in 1984. In 1987-1988 he worked for the George Bush Campaign in Florida, and was appointed by President Bush to serve at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He assisted in developing the President’s “1000 Points of Light” program, and represented the Secretary of Agriculture on the President’s Commission on National and Community Service.
His professional background also includes working for the James Madison Institute, a public policy “think tank,” Family First (at the time the Florida affiliate of Focus on the Family), and managing a Christian Life Center in Clearwater.
Richard’s volunteer service includes serving as a “Big Brother” for 15 years, actively working in youth ministry for over 28 years, and mentoring high school boys and teaching them the "roadmap to manhood" through the Champions program.
Richard graduated from Florida State University with a double major in History and Political Science in 1985. Richard and Elizabeth Albertson were married in 1988, and they have 5 children: Ashley and her husband Cam, Rachel and her husband Jordan, Chip and his wife Haley, Katie and Kimberly, and five grandchildren: Ardyn Albertson, Taggart Albertson, Gideon Albertson, Judah Richard Mauro, Emery Mauro, and Evelyn Briggs.