
ASCP, ISPA and PBA Receive 2026 Power of Associations Award for Esthetics Licensure Compact
This shared recognition celebrates the strength of industry collaboration in advancing professional mobility.
Want to become a platform artist? Or simply improve your communication skills with clients? Naked Audience Productions is conducting a lab called Stages that will help you take home practical actions to control your career, make more money and create a name for yourself in the professional beauty industry.
Whether you are just starting out in the beauty industry, or you have been planning the next stage of your career for several years, there is now a 2 ½ day certification training that will provide you with the knowledge and know how to deliver authentic and meaningful content to your clients behind the chair and on stage.
Presented by Naked Audience Productions, Stages, this forward-thinking, multi-purpose idea lab for artistic endeavors will take place September 10-12 at {seven degrees} in Laguna Beach, CA. The class will help you take home at least three big insights and practical actions to take control of your career, make more money and create a name for yourself in the professional beauty industry.
Alejandra Crisafulli, from The Naked Audience team, will help you create the internal dialogue to give you the confidence to reach your goals; while Bonnie Bonadeo will help you develop your name, create an external branding plan and get booked. “When you understand that there is nowhere to hide from yourself especially in front of an audience and your own the naked truth of yourself, then everyone will want what you have,” says Crisafulli.
This class will help you:
*Deliver a message that’s remembered.
*Create a connection with your audience on an emotional level.
*Lead and facilitate large and small groups.
*Brand yourself and market YOU as an educator.
*Express yourself confidently to drive others to action.
*Apply the Stages’ skills to your life.
“The true AHA moment for most people comes when they understand their own authentic approach to communicating—they leave saying, ‘I get it…I just need to be more comfortable being me!’” explains Bonadeo.
Early registration is $497.00 per person before August 10, after which the investment increases to $597.00. Or even better, buddy up with a friend and you both save 20 percent.
For more information, contact Bonnie Bonadeo at bonnie@nakedaudienceproductions.comor 877-319-2403, ext. 5, or visit www.tinyurl.com/stagesevent.

This shared recognition celebrates the strength of industry collaboration in advancing professional mobility.

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