So how do you follow your dreams if you grew up with nothing, if you survived a dangerous

neighborhood as an underprivileged kid, and you didn't take the traditional educational route?

Yes, it's possible. Today, I sat down with the Drexley, a true self-made serial entrepreneur

and filmmaker with over a million TikTok followers for his unique filming style.

We had an awesome heart to heart about what it was really like growing up Asian American

and bonded over our favorite anime and all other fun entrepreneurial things.

Stay tuned after this intro.

Hi, I'm Gloria Zhang and after 10 years of struggling in toxic relationships, I attracted the love of my life by healing my inner child.

This podcast is your weekly dose of my expertise as a therapist and dating relationship coach for high achievers.

Learn tips to overcome low self-worth, emotional baggage, and childhood trauma so that you

too can step into your power and attract the love you desire.

Welcome to the Inner Child podcast.

Welcome back to the podcast where we are diving back to talk all about successful

entrepreneurs, love dating and overcoming obstacles from the past. My name is Gloria Zang. I'm

your resident therapist term coach and I have a really interesting guest for you today.

He's based out of California. He is a filmmaker, serial entrepreneur, and has over a million views on TikTok for his very cool and innovative and creative cinematography tips that I was sort of binge watching right before we

got onto the show. His name is Drexley, and I want to welcome him to the show.

Thank you for bringing me on. I'm super excited to get this going with you.

Yeah. So Drex, when I was checking out your Instagram, I saw that you were doing a lot of cool tricks filming from your phone, right? It was these like single-handed shots. Where did you get the idea for that?

Well, you know, because I'm a filmmaker, these shots are the type of shots that I do all the time. And one of the things that people were really asking me all the time was, can you do this with a cell phone? And then I'm like, yeah, I think you could do this with a cell phone. And then earlier in a year, I got selected to be a finalist on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon during his film festival. And then the constraints of the festival was that we had to shoot the film all on the

phone within a week you know Samsung sponsored the event and then they sent me over a phone and then

okay cool so we did a whole film on the phone and that really pushed my boundaries on okay yeah

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