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The Main Character Experience™ Podcast

The Main Character Experience™ Podcast

Written by: Kala C. Simmons MSW | Confidence & Authenticity Coach
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The Main Character Experience™ is a mindset and personal growth podcast hosted by Kala C. Simmons (professionally known as Kala Simmons) Master Social Worker, Certified Life Coach, and Confidence Strategist, dedicated to helping Black women heal toxic patterns, rebuild their identity, and walk in unshakable confidence as the Main Character of their life.


If you’re a Black woman starting over in life, love, career, or healing—welcome home.


Created by Kala Simmons, this podcast is for women who feel stuck, overlooked, or exhausted from shrinking in rooms they were born to own. Each episode delivers no-fluff coaching, empowering mindset shifts, and emotional mastery tools rooted in identity development, self-worth, boundaries, and bold personal transformation.


Inside The Main Character Experience™, Kala C. Simmons guides you through real conversations and practical strategies to help you:


• Rebuild confidence after a breakup, breakdown, or breakthrough
• Set boundaries without guilt, people-pleasing, or backtracking
• Navigate career pivots and purpose shifts in your 30s, 40s, and beyond
• Heal your relationship with yourself so you stop performing for validation
• Step fully into your Main Character Era™ with power, peace, and presence

This podcast centers the lived experiences, emotional labor, and brilliance of Black women navigating fresh starts—but growth has no shade card. If you’re a woman who values truth, healing, accountability, and a little side-eye-worthy humor along the way, you belong here.


Through raw storytelling, mindset coaching, and identity-level work, Kala Simmons helps you stop playing small and start showing up as the woman you’ve always been.


✨ Your next chapter starts now. Are you ready to take up space?

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🌐 Website: https://www.kalasimmons.com/

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Episodes
  • How to Make Confident Decisions Without Overthinking
    Jan 27 2026

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    Struggling with decision-making? Overthinking every move? Feeling stuck between fear and “what ifs”?
    You’re not broken. You’re just missing a framework.

    In this episode of The Main Character Experience Podcast, Coach Kala Simmons introduces the Kollective Klarity Framework, a practical decision-making process designed to reduce overwhelm, build self-trust, and help you take aligned action (even when you’re scared).

    If you’ve ever:

    • Second-guessed yourself into inaction
    • Let emotions drive decisions you later regret
    • Struggled to set boundaries and follow through
    • Felt paralyzed by fear of the “wrong” choice

    This episode is for you.

    🔍 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

    • Why separating feelings from facts is the foundation of confident decision-making
    • The 4 essential questions to ask before making any major decision
    • How to determine if a decision is safe (emotionally, financially, and physically
    • The difference between boundaries vs. standards (and why confusing them keeps you stuck)
    • How to make decisions that honor you even if the outcome changes
    • Why small daily decisions build confidence for bigger life moves

    🧠 The Kollective Klarity Framework:

    1. Separate feelings from verifiable facts
    2. Ask if the decision is safe right now
    3. Check alignment with your next-level identity
    4. Identify boundaries required for follow-through
    5. Decide in a way that honors you — regardless of outcome

    This framework helps you stop spinning, stop people-pleasing, and start moving with clarity, integrity, and accountability.

    💡 Why This Matters

    Confident women don’t make perfect decisions. They make aligned ones.
    And alignment builds trust.
    Trust builds confidence.
    Confidence changes everything.

    🔗 Ready for Personalized Support?

    If you need help gaining clarity around a decision you’ve been avoiding, Book a Klarity Call.

    👉🏾 Let this be the year you stop overthinking and start moving.

    If this episode resonated, explore tools and support to help you move with clarity and ownership at heycoachk.co/kala.

    I hope this episode helped you find hope, value, or strength. Never forget you are the Main Character 🎬💥 of your story, so if you don't love the narrative that you're living, it's never to late for a Plot Twist... And I can help.

    xo,
    CoachK

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    8 mins
  • Owning Who You Are Now: Identity Shifts, Confidence, & Letting Go of Old Versions of Yourself
    Jan 20 2026

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    What happens when the version of you that worked… no longer fits?

    In this episode of The Main Character Experience Podcast, Kala Simmons dives into the often-overlooked side of personal growth: identity shifts. From losing the ability to wear heels at work to spending months in scrubs just to survive demanding seasons, this episode explores how confidence, self-expression, and ownership evolve over time.

    Kala shares a personal story about how a workplace dress code change sparked a deeper realization—her wardrobe wasn’t the only thing that needed to evolve. As life demanded more flexibility, leadership, and resilience, she found herself living in survival mode. And when the space finally returned to choose, she discovered she had outgrown the version of herself she once knew.

    This episode is a powerful reminder that growth doesn’t mean abandoning who you were—it means honoring her while allowing yourself to become who you’re meant to be next.

    If you’ve ever felt misaligned in your identity, style, confidence, or direction—or found yourself performing an old version of yourself because it once worked—this conversation will resonate deeply.

    In this episode, we talk about:

    • Identity shifts and personal growth
    • What it means to truly own who you are now
    • Confidence beyond performance and appearance
    • Outgrowing old versions of yourself
    • Radical responsibility and self-leadership
    • Letting go of outdated identities
    • Choosing alignment over nostalgia
    • Evolving confidence as a woman
    • Authentic self-expression and self-trust

    This episode is for women who are:

    • Navigating change or transition
    • Feeling disconnected from who they used to be
    • Ready to step into a new era with integrity and confidence
    • Learning how to stop performing and start embodying their truth

    New era. Same integrity. More truth.

    If this episode hit a little too close to home, it’s not by accident.

    The Own It Workbook was created for moments exactly like this—when you realize you’ve outgrown old versions of yourself and you’re ready to take responsibility for who you are now.

    This isn’t about fixing yourself.
    It’s about getting honest, getting aligned, and getting intentional.

    Inside the Own It Workbook, you’ll:

    • Identify where you’re still showing up as an outdated version of yourself
    • Break patterns rooted in survival, performance, or people-pleasing
    • Reclaim confidence through clarity and ownership
    • Learn how to align your habits, identity, and self-expression
    • Step fully into the version of you that fits this season

    ✨ Growth starts with ownership—and this is where you practice it.

    👉🏾 Grab the Own It Workbook and start choosing alignment over nostalgia.
    https://www.heycoachk.co/ownit

    If this episode resonated, explore tools and support to help you move with clarity and ownership at heycoachk.co/kala.

    I hope this episode helped you find hope, value, or strength. Never forget you are the Main Character 🎬💥 of your story, so if you don't love the narrative that you're living, it's never to late for a Plot Twist... And I can help.

    xo,
    CoachK

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    5 mins
  • The Motivation Myth: Why Waiting to “Feel Like It” Is Keeping You Stuck, Broke, & Inconsistent
    Jan 13 2026

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    Motivation is not missing from your life—ownership is.

    In this episode of The Main Character Experience Podcast, Kala Simmons breaks down the motivation myth that keeps so many people stuck in cycles of inconsistency, self-doubt, and unrealized potential. If you’ve ever said “I don’t feel like it” and watched your goals stall, this conversation is for you.

    Kala explains why relying on feelings is a losing strategy and how high-achieving women stop waiting for motivation and start moving with intention, identity, and ownership.

    This episode explores:

    • Why motivation is unreliable (and what actually creates results)
    • How “I don’t feel like it” is often fear in disguise
    • The real cost of inconsistency—financially, emotionally, and spiritually
    • What it means to be the bottleneck and the breakthrough
    • How to build confidence through action, not hype
    • A practical framework for creating a System of Ownership
    • Why momentum comes from evidence, not emotions

    Kala also introduces a core truth behind her Rock The M.I.C. Method™:
    You don’t wait to feel confident—you act, and confidence catches up.

    If you’re tired of starting over, renegotiating with yourself, and waiting for the “right” feeling, this episode will challenge you to shift from motivation-based living to ownership-based results.

    🎧 Listen now and step into main character behavior—no motivation required.

    👉🏾 Ready to apply this work? Grab your workbook here.

    If this episode resonated, explore tools and support to help you move with clarity and ownership at heycoachk.co/kala.

    I hope this episode helped you find hope, value, or strength. Never forget you are the Main Character 🎬💥 of your story, so if you don't love the narrative that you're living, it's never to late for a Plot Twist... And I can help.

    xo,
    CoachK

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    5 mins
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