Green Beret Chronicles Founder Jay Dorleus

About this video

Ritland interviews Jay Doris, who spent 20 years in the military—four as an Army combat engineer and 14 as a Green Beret with multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Doris recounts his early life in Haiti, where he lived without electricity and often ate dirt due to extreme poverty, before immigrating to Brooklyn at age 10. He describes the culture shock of adjusting to America, navigating language barriers and bullying in school, and his eventual path toward military service.

Key takeaways

• Doris describes growing up in rural Haiti without electricity, running water limitations, and extreme poverty that included eating dirt mixed with salt just to fill his stomach
• Immigration to Brooklyn at age 10 created severe culture shock—Doris had never seen a TV, didn’t speak English, and faced bullying in school for being Haitian and wearing hand-me-down clothes
• Doris attributes his gratitude for America and mental toughness to his harsh upbringing, using the memory of eating dirt to teach his own children appreciation for what they have

Episode details: published June 10, 2024 · 38K views · 2:22:53 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Stories told by Mike Ritland’s podcast guests are the guests’ own accounts, attributed to them — not independently verified. Commentary is Ritland’s, presented as his analysis.

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