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Daredevil and YouTube creator Michelle Carre is known for testing human limits through extreme physical and mental feats.

She has trained as a chess grandmaster, escaped Harry Houdini's deadliest magic trick, and as you'll see from the talk, many, many other challenges.

She shares how she learned to embrace fear and why working for the challenge itself rather than the perfect destination can turn the impossible into possible.

At this moment in the talk, on screen behind Michelle flashes a picture of her in traditional clown makeup performing an act.

Think painted face with overly accentuated eyebrows and contours and a red clown nose.

At this point, Michelle turns her attention to the screen where a video plays of her in a white taekwondo uniform and a red belt preparing to try and break a solid brick.

They are on top of a hill outside with a Japanese gazebo in the background.

And both the American and Japanese flags are waving in the wind.