Welcome to the Body Contouring Academy!
We are Shannon and Kay, twenty year veterans of the aesthetics, med spa and body contouring industries - and - Founders of the Body Contouring Academy.
Our path to the Body Contouring Academy as two experienced med spa owners
As an RN/Attorney (Kay) and an Esthetician/Marketing Specialist (Shannon), we’ve owned and operated three medical spas since 2007.
Body contouring has always been our thing. So we followed our heart with our most recent med spa startup and used a body contouring centric concept.
Sculpt Away body shaping + beauty lounge opened its doors in San Antonio, Texas, in September of 2015. Hip, modern, and cool with a resort style vibe - and with a laser focus on body contouring. In less than a year, we grew Sculpt Away into a million dollar plus award-winning body contouring business that continues to operate at 7-figures today.
The secret to body contouring success
Bottom line. The systems and processes we developed and perfected over our twenty years in the med spa biz proved to be the secret to our body contouring business success.
Specifically, it was the comprehensive step-by-step guides, treatments, protocols, techniques and forms that are easy for teams to follow, that deliver great patient results, build a great reputation and bring in a consistently high revenue stream.
Why the Body Contouring Academy is your shortcut to body contouring success
In 2018, after learning of others struggling to succeed with body contouring, we founded the Body Contouring Academy ... .so we could share all that we have learned in our twenty years of practice - to teach others to succeed in a fraction of the time.
Through our online body contouring certification courses, treatment protocols, business and treatment forms, comprehensive operational systems and our line of body contouring products, we strive to empower others to achieve success - in the fastest way possible.
Learn more about the Body Contouring Academy’s body contouring certification courses.
Kay Casner Overley, JD. RN. BSN
Kay Casner Overley is a non-invasive body contouring expert and aesthetic RN, medical spa entrepreneur, author, attorney, podcaster, and co-founder of the Body Contouring Academy.
Kay has been a practicing RN for more than 35 years, focusing on non-invasive body contouring for the last 15 years.
Kay is recognized not only as a body shaping expert but as an expert in the operations of aesthetics businesses and medical spas. With her unique combination of education, skills, and experience (RN, lawyer, entrepreneur), Kay possesses an extraordinary ability to see the whole picture - to assess the needs of the patients, design and deliver the most effective protocol, in the most efficient manner, by the highest trained staff. She can easily identify and solve any aesthetics business issues.
Kay spent more than 20 years as Founder/CEO of three businesses, two thriving medical practices, and one successful medical spa. After selling these ventures, Kay partnered with Shannon Schimmel to create a unique niche concept medical spa dedicated to non-invasive body contouring.
With her nursing background, Kay understood how nutrients affect the body - fat and skin - and saw the void in addressing the benefits of nutrition for the body contouring patient. Together with Shannon, Kay conducted extensive research and developed a professional line of cutting-edge fat loss, detox, and weight loss topical agents and oral supplements to assist patients achieve their body contouring goals.
Kay, her husband Steve, and their two pups and a grouchy cat, make their home in Kay’s home town of Lubbock, Texas. When Kay is not busy with ‘everything esthetics,’ she is enjoying activities with her son, daughter-in-law and two toddler grandsons in Little Rock, Arkansas, traveling with her pups (the grouchy cat stays behind), and cheering on her alma mater, Texas Tech, in football, basketball and baseball games.
Shannon Schimmel, LME
Shannon Schimmel is a non-invasive body contouring expert, medical spa entrepreneur, author, aesthetician, podcaster and co-founder of the Body Contouring Academy.
Shannon is recognized as a true visionary and innovator in the spa and aesthetics industry. She is best known for her ability to see what others do not. She is respected for her uncommon ability to uncover fresh, unique and ‘out of the box’ solutions for the aesthetics business. Solutions that benefit both patients and aesthetics professionals alike.
Shannon’s latest innovation, a hip, modern, resort-style med spa focused solely on non-invasive body contouring, has been wildly successful, winning many awards and earning seven figures since 2016.
Over the years, Shannon has operated two successful medical spas and helped thousands of patients. Her innovative spirit led her to develop many solutions along the way. An avid DIY-er, she identified a need for better home care and patient DIY. Putting this discovery into action, together with Kay, she developed a complete professional home care body contouring product line.
Shannon and Kay extended their talents and experience with the hosting of a podcast designed to benefit entrepreneurs, spa owners, and aesthetic professionals of all kinds, who want to improve their medical spa or aesthetic business operations and learn more about non-invasive body contouring.
Shannon lives with her husband Steve and their two dogs just outside of San Antonio, Texas. When she is not busy creating medical spa solutions, she enjoys learning how things work, ‘fixing things,’ and spending time with her husband, pups, and family.