Amplify Peace: Creating a Better Story Together
We want to meet and engage the innovators, the doers, and the rebels who are stepping into the breeches of our day. Who are those who are making our world a more loving and compassionate place? Who are the those who are building peace and connections in a horribly divided land? And who are those who are lifting up culture with Kingdom values to promote human flourishing? Let’s have some fun and challenging conversations to help us to think, grow and walk courageously down the narrow road.
Amplify Peace: Creating a Better Story Together
Palestinian & Israeli: Can One Life Hold Both?
In this moving first episode of a two-part conversation, you’ll meet our guest, Michael Zacharia—an Executive Coach, Mediator, Attorney, author, and peacemaker whose life embodies a question the world is still wrestling with: Can one life hold both Palestinian and Israeli identity?
Born to a Palestinian Christian father and a Jewish Israeli mother, Michael’s early life was steeped in complexity, contradiction, and deep cultural richness. Raised in the United States, he grew up at the intersection of global conflict and personal formation—where hospitality met independence, where ancient tensions lived around the dinner table, and where identity was never a simple checkbox.
In this episode, Michael shares how he learned to live in the in-between—with courage, compassion, and curiosity. He reflects on how both the beauty and the messiness of his story shaped his journey of becoming a mediator and peacemaker.
This is not just a conversation about heritage. It’s a call to wholeness in a world of division.