Meet the Director of YouTubes Biggest Production (Challenge Accepted) @jay
Meet the Director of YouTubes Biggest Production (Challenge Accepted)  @jay
Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
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Garrett Kennell is the Chief Creative Officer for - and husband to - Michelle Khare. Garrett has been working on the channel since Michelleโ€™s very first video all the way back in 2016.
Since that first video, their channel has grown to nearly 5 million subscribers and has over 740 million views, making it one of the most intense and complicated productions YouTube has ever seen. Their secret? They have a process for everything.

In this episode, Garrett breaks some of those processes down, including brainstorming, decision-making, and how YOU can start to make bigger, better videos at any scale.

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - The Most Insane Production on YouTube
01:33 - How Michelle Khareโ€™s Channel Evolved
07:14 - How Much a Michelle Khare Video Costs
10:19 - Grow Your Podcast With Spotify
11:36 - Bonoโ€™s Six Thinking Hats
17:43 - Getting Rejected
21:20 - Thinking Big
23:51 - How Challenge Accepted Gets Made
29:23 - Making Content for Impact
32:34 - When is Something Done?
34:07 - Where Do Things Go Wrong?
39:44 - Systems and Processes
43:48 - Getting Sponsors
48:55 - Advice to Grow Quickly
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CONNECT WITH GARRETT
๐Ÿฆ Twitter: https://x.com/GarrettKennell
๐Ÿ“น YouTube: youtube.com/@MichelleKhare

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CONNECT WITH ME
๐Ÿฆ Twitter: twitter.com/jayclouse
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๐Ÿ’ผ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jayclouse
๐Ÿฆ‹ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jay.blog

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TEAM
Founder + Host // Jay Clouse: creatorscience.com
Editor + Producer // Conor Conaboy: twitter.com/conorconaboy
Thumbnail Artist // Jonathan Sippel: twitter.com/thumbnailgrail
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