#860: Daredevil Michelle Khare — How to Become a YouTube Superstar, Open Impossible Doors (FBI, Secret Service, etc.), Craft Jedi-Level Cold Emails, and Use Fear-Setting to Change Your Life

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Daredevil Michelle Khare lives life to the extreme in Challenge Accepted, amassing more than 6 million followers and more than 1 billion views. Across the show, you'll see Michelle attempt everything from Tom Cruise’s Deadliest stunt to Harry Houdini’s water torture cell to trying to earn a black belt in taekwondo in only 90 days. This episode is brought to you by: Fin powerful AI Agent for all your customer service: Fin.Ai/Tim Monarch track, budget, plan, and do more with your money: Monarch.com/Tim  Momentous Fiber+ 3-in-1 formula with soluble fiber, insoluble fiber, and Solnul® resistant starch: LiveMomentous.com/Tim AG1 all-in-one nutritional supplement: DrinkAG1.com/Tim TIMESTAMPS: [00:00:00] Start. [00:00:24] Challenge Accepted: The logline and why breakdowns stay in the edit. [00:03:05] Growing up in Shreveport, LA: Friday night movies, the AFI Top 100, and interning on Snitch. [00:06:15] Podcasting: While “easier” than writing books, it’s a heck of a lot more work than meets the ear. [00:21:24] Quality over quantity: 8–10 episodes a year, scarcity as strategy, and building a defensible moat. [00:31:47] “Hard choices, easy life.” — Jerzy Gregorek, calling the FAA 300 times, and why no one copies you when the barrier is insanity. [00:35:32] Dartmouth to Google.org: the Fermi estimation faceplant and not getting the job. [00:37:10] BuzzFeed as graduate school of the internet. [00:40:37] Work for someone else first: My case against starting a company right out of school. [00:47:28] The stolen book: Michelle pulls out a battered 2016 copy of The 4-Hour Workweek and reads her fear-setting chart aloud. [00:51:10] “I’ve never designed my own rubric of success” — the nightmare, the repair plan, and what Michelle was putting off out of fear. [00:56:59] Practicing poverty: studio apartment, stripped-down life, moonlighting for a year, then the three-month-savings leap. [01:06:58] Kebab-shop destiny: meeting stunt coordinator Steve Brown in L.A. — now he does Avatar