Ellen McDonald is an entrepreneur, speaker and host of The Main Act podcast, a movement for people who are done settling, done playing small and ready to step into who they were always meant to be. After leaving her career as a primary school teacher, Ellen went on to build an Airbnb business, travel the world and create a life that once felt completely out of reach. None of it started because she suddenly felt ready. Through personal stories, humour and the messy bits most people leave out, Ellen explores how you actually become the Main Act in your own life: the decisions you make when you're scared, the chances you take when there are no guarantees, and the moment you stop waiting for somebody else to choose you and start choosing yourself. Because you are not the understudy. You are the Main Act, and it's time you started acting like it.
Ellen McDonald is an entrepreneur, speaker and Airbnb expert who swapped the primary school classroom for property. Over the last five years she's built a business sourcing, setting up and managing Airbnbs for herself and property investors, helping others make money from property without necessarily having to own it. But Ellen isn't interested in only telling you about the wins. She talks about the deals that worked, the ones that absolutely didn't, the expensive mistakes and the lessons that only come from running an Airbnb business when things inevitably go wrong. Her approach is simple: no overnight-success promises, no pretending every deal is a good deal and no hiding the messy bits.
