Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Julian Dorey turned down a lucrative Wall Street offer because "banks are where creativity goes to die," then spent every dollar he had on podcast equipment that arrived the first day of COVID quarantine. His dad's phone call changed everything: "This isn't going to be two weeks. This is going to be a year." From a makeshift studio in his parents' back room in South Jersey, Julian built The Julian Dorey Podcast into a powerhouse with over a million followers.
In this clip from The Resilient Show, Julian sits down with Chad Robichaux to talk about the moment he bet everything on himself, what COVID was really like at ground zero in North Jersey, and why looking back on the pandemic response, he believes people in business and government "knew damn well" it wasn't what they were advertising.
Full Episode: youtube.com/watch?v=_hcanrtZg7U
Julian Dorey's Channel: youtube.com/@UC0A-v_DL-h76F75xik8h03Q
Julian Dorey turned down a lucrative Wall Street offer because "banks are where creativity goes to die," then spent every dollar he had on podcast equipment that arrived the first day of COVID quarantine. His dad's phone call changed everything: "This isn't going to be two weeks. This is going to be a year." From a makeshift studio in his parents' back room in South Jersey, Julian built The Julian Dorey Podcast into a powerhouse with over a million followers.
In this clip from The Resilient Show, Julian sits down with Chad Robichaux to talk about the moment he bet everything on himself, what COVID was really like at ground zero in North Jersey, and why looking back on the pandemic response, he believes people in business and government "knew damn well" it wasn't what they were advertising.
Full Episode: youtube.com/watch?v=_hcanrtZg7U
Julian Dorey's Channel: youtube.com/@UC0A-v_DL-h76F75xik8h03Q










