ELLEN McDonald
The Main Act Podcast

For the one who is done
waiting to be chosen.

The Main Act is a podcast about business, confidence, relationships, identity, money, failure, starting again and all the messy decisions in between.

It's for the person who knows there is more in them, but has spent far too long waiting for the right time, the right person, the right amount of confidence or some invisible permission slip to go after it. You don't need one. Welcome to The Main Act.

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Why I made it

The honest conversations, not the polished ones.

The conversations that have changed my life were rarely the polished ones. They were the honest ones where someone admitted what nearly broke them, what they got wrong, what they were scared to say out loud and what finally made them move.

That's what I want this podcast to feel like.

Some guests are founders. Some are creators, athletes or people with stories you might never otherwise hear. The job title matters less than the decision they made that changed the direction of their life.

The questions I care about

Six questions worth asking yourself.

"What nearly made you quit?"
"Where are you still playing small?"
"What did success cost you that you weren't expecting?"
"What are you still working on?"
"When did you stop waiting for permission?"
"What decision changed everything?"
Want to be a guest?

You don't need a million followers. You need something real.

This podcast isn't about who has the biggest platform. It's about who's walking a real road with real lessons behind them.

If you have lived through something that could make someone else see their own life differently, I'd love to hear it.

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