Kate Sprouse stumbled upon sugaring while teaching at a holistic aesthetics school, and something about this ancient hair removal technique captivated her completely. "Once you touch sugar," she explains, "once I held it, once I got certified, I started playing around with it at home. I sugared any friend or family member that would come around, and I was like this is it? This is the ticket?" Fifteen years later, Kate's intuition has proven remarkably accurate. Her Portland-based business, Sugar Me, now boasts two thriving locations and recently claimed the coveted "Best Hair Removal" title across all techniques in Portland's 2024 citywide competition. This recognition feels especially meaningful as it signifies sugaring's emergence from relative obscurity into mainstream awareness. What truly distinguishes Kate's business model isn't just her singular focus on perfecting the sugaring craft, but her revolutionary approach to team building. Rather than viewing employee departur...

What happens when the Sugar Mama meets the Sugar Daddy? A frank, educational, and surprisingly hilarious conversation about the specialized world of male body sugaring! Shannon welcomes Armando Gualtieri, founder of The Sugar Daddy - New York's premier sugaring studio exclusively for male anatomy - to share insights from his thriving practice.

Armando's journey from massage therapist and theater artist to sugaring specialist began with his own painful waxing experience (colorfully described as feeling like "someone had punched me in the butthole"). After discovering the magic of sugaring, he built a thriving business with an all-male staff focused on professional, expert care for clients with male anatomy, regardless of gender identity. His approach fills a crucial gap in the beauty industry, creating a safe space where transgender, non-binary, straight, and gay men all receive specialized care without judgment.

The conversation delves into professional considerations unique to male...

Angela Anderson is the creative and super knowledgable founder of Beauty Social Breakthrough, a coaching business that helps beauty professionals build up their social media and create powerful marketing strategies.  Her personalized services really have positioned her as a friendly, effective partner for your marketing arsenal.  No matter where you are on your beauty biz journey, Angela will help you succeed!

This episode really focuses on specific strategies you can use for Instagram.  The maps out exact action you can take NOW to really improve the functionality of your presence.  I even learned a few new tricks I plan on implementing!

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Thanks for tuning in! Welcome to the very first episode of the SugarShow!

To give you some background my clients named me the SugarMama because:

1. My superpower is Sugaring
2. I'm a mama to 5 kids and 1 granddaughter
3. And because the “other meaning” is that I’ll take care of you

But to me being The SugarMama means I will guide you and give you solid REAL advice. We will work through all the things not only sugaring techniques but business and growth and a whole lotta gratitude.
We will laugh
We will learn
And we will do big things. I'm not shy!

For 10 years now I’ve made my living sugaring an enormous clientele and for the last 5 years I've been teaching esties all over the world how to master the art of body sugaring.

I've been able to go from scared single mama back then not knowing in a recession how I was going to feed my kids… to tripling my income and hiring a staff of esties and front desk dynamos to accommodate the growth. I've been able to help thousands of esties around th...