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ABOUT Lisa
Founder, Mentor, and Living Proof That Rebuilding Is Possible
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Our focus on understanding clients' business goals, target audience, and unique challenges.
Lisa Mahoney knows what it feels like to lose your voice — almost literally. In 2014, mid-performance, her voice disappeared without warning. What followed was a long search for answers, and a difficult realisation: the effects of past emotional abuse had stayed with her long after the relationship itself had ended. Rebuilding took time, training and a great deal of determination. Step by step, Lisa found her voice again — this time, on her own terms. Alongside that personal rebuild, she was also building something else: a beauty business, and later, a training academy of her own. Today, Lisa brings both sides of her experience together. She helps women reconnect with their confidence and identity, and — where it's right for them — gives them the practical skills to build an income and a business of their own. This is the story of how Pretty Woman Academy came to exist, and why it exists for you.

Pretty Woman Academy

What we do

Confidence & Transformation Coaching

We help women rebuild self-trust, set boundaries that hold, and move beyond survival mode into calm, visible leadership — at a pace that feels safe.

Hands-On Beauty Training

Small classes and real client practice in nails, facials, waxing and massage — building skills you can genuinely build a career on, not just a certificate.

Career & Business Growth

From your first qualification to running your own business, we support every step — whether that means employed work, self-employment, or leading your own team.

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Every powerful woman you admire once started exactly where you are now. Your next chapter is waiting — all you have to do is begin.

Pretty Woman Academy

Why women choose Pretty Woman

Every course is built around real skills, real confidence and a real path forward — not just a certificate on the wall.

Expert Trainers

Learn directly from qualified, experienced tutors who've built real careers in the beauty industry.

Hands-On Experience

Practise on real models in small classes, so you leave confident — not just certified.

Advanced Techniques

Train in the same methods used by working professionals, kept current with the industry.

Career Success

Graduate ready to work — employed, self-employed, or running your own beauty business.

12
Years in the Beauty Industry
300+
Students Trained

A journey built on real experience, not theory

2014
2014 — The Turning Point
Lisa discovered how deeply unprocessed experience can live in the body — the beginning of years spent mastering nervous system and trauma recovery work.
2020
2020 — Pretty Woman Academy Founded
After years mastering her craft, Lisa founded Pretty Woman Training Academy — built to help other women turn passion into profit and freedom.
Today
Today — Two Academies, One Mission
Helping women rebuild from within and build real beauty careers — through hands-on training and honest, lived-experience coaching.
Every graduate who has gone on to build their own business, career or confidence reminds us why this work matters. Thank you for letting us be part of your story.