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.
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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 and straps
Michelle to planes.
[01:09:04] Surface area for luck: Bill Gurley, Kevin Kelly’s
sleeping bag, and Seneca on voluntary discomfort.
[01:12:44] Coach, mentor, cheerleader: the three-person
Formula One team you actually need.
[01:17:20] The art of the cold email — and cold-calling the
FBI tip line to meet “The Hollywood Guy.”
[01:21:55] Michelle’s three-paragraph, six-sentence formula
for emails that open any door.
[01:26:15] My cold email playbook: the “via” trick, include
your damn cell number, and why “Yo, Ferriss” is an auto-archive.
[01:36:24] The fake Tim Ferriss Podcast phishing scam: Zoom
calls, screen access, and hijacked Facebook pages.
[01:40:58] Emailing Hank Green, Brandon Sanderson’s
unpublished novels, and why your first cold emails are just
practice reps.
[01:46:37] Michelle’s storytelling syllabus: Survivor,
Snyder’s Save the Cat, and peer review of whatever went
viral last week.
[01:48:44] The magic of Jeff Probst, and dissecting the bones
of storytelling.
[01:53:12] John McPhee’s red-ink writing class at Princeton.
[01:58:38] Six Thinking Hats broke Michelle’s
pessimism; Radical Candor taught her how to give
feedback.
[02:07:20] The slinky org chart: Seven full-timers that
balloon to 50 for a shoot, then compress right back.
[02:21:21] Scope creep, saying no to big checks, and why
Michelle has never hit creator burnout.
[02:30:34] My No Book teaser: 850 pages on
renegotiating commitments and getting back on the wagon.
[02:33:31] The Mindy Kaling manifesto:
@MindyKalingFan, The Office, and shattering expectations for
Indian women in entertainment.
[02:40:38] Wishlist shout-out: Norland College, where Mary
Poppins meets Secret Service.
[02:42:48] Episodes Michelle would pay to relive.
[02:47:40] Episodes Michelle would pay to skip.
[02:52:15] Seven marathons, seven continents, one week.
[02:57:10] Free Solo, Alex Honnold in the creepy van,
and things both of us would never do.
[03:00:38] Books gifted most: Radical Candor, The
Great CEO Within, and Adam Grant’s Originals.
[03:01:21] Michelle’s billboard.
[03:02:45] A primetime Emmy run and parting thoughts.
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