What happens when people who’ve been pushed to the margins take the mic and own the narrative?
You get Peer Media. And you get the Breaking Barriers podcast.
This inaugural episode brings together six voices with deep experience navigating stigma, institutional failure, and personal transformation:
- David Israelian – Trauma survivor, technologist, and relentless innovator who co-founded one of the first peer-led digital mental health ventures.
- Paul Robinson – A fierce systems thinker who’s helped navigate and challenge nonprofit dysfunction from within.
- Tiffany Elliott – A rising force in the peer movement, with a gift for holding both emotional depth and organizational vision.
- Kevin Naruse – Interviewer and Peer Media’s CEO, whose vision helped bring this platform to life.
“I’ve worked in places that used the word ‘peer’ in their branding but made us invisible behind the scenes. Peer Media is about flipping that script.” – Kevin Naruse
This first conversation is intimate, honest, and energizing. It lays the groundwork for a new kind of media—led by peers, powered by experience, and rooted in justice.
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