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Built on the belief that
small stages matter.

We started Small Stages because we kept seeing the same problem — great wellness brands struggling to find creators who genuinely believed in their products, and authentic creators passed over for celebrities with half the engagement.

Why We Built This

The problem with influencer marketing isn't the influencers.

It's the mismatch. Brands spending budgets on creators whose audiences don't care about wellness. Creators promoting products they'd never use. Both sides frustrated. Neither seeing results.

We built Small Stages to fix that mismatch — specifically for the wellness industry, where authenticity isn't just a buzzword, it's the entire value proposition.

Our approach is simple: slow down the process, focus on fit, and build partnerships that make both sides proud. We don't believe in volume. We believe in the right match.

The wellness space is full of brands with incredible products and creators with deeply loyal audiences. They just haven't found each other yet. That's what we're here for.

The biggest stages aren't always the most powerful ones. The most powerful ones are where people are actually listening.

— The Small Stages Founders

Wellness
Industry Focus
100%
Human Matching
What We Stand For

Our values

01

Authenticity First

We only facilitate partnerships where the creator would genuinely use the product. No fake endorsements. No pay-to-play mismatches. If it doesn't feel real, it doesn't happen.

02

Niche Over Scale

We believe a creator with 8,000 deeply engaged wellness followers is more valuable to your brand than one with 800,000 who barely engage. Niche audiences drive real decisions.

03

Relationships Over Transactions

We're building a community, not a marketplace. Our goal is long-term partnerships that grow both the brand and the creator — not one-off posts that disappear in 24 hours.

04

No Commitment Until You're Ready

Both sides review and approve before anything begins. No pressure, no surprise placements. Trust is the foundation of every partnership we build.

05

Wellness Industry Expertise

We're not a general influencer platform. We live in the wellness space — food, supplements, clean beauty, pet nutrition, baby nutrition — and we know it deeply.

06

Growth for Both Sides

A great partnership lifts both the brand and the creator. We measure success by whether both sides are genuinely thriving from the collaboration.

The Team

Meet the founders

Three friends who share a passion for wellness, entrepreneurship, and the belief that the most powerful marketing comes from people who genuinely believe in what they're sharing.

Jesus Brito
Jesus Brito
Co-Founder
Nicholas Valenti
Nicholas Valenti
Co-Founder
Alberto Martinez
Alberto Martinez
Co-Founder
How It Started

Small Stages was born in El Paso, Texas, where three friends grew up sharing more than just a hometown — they shared a vision. Jesus, Nicholas, and Alberto met in high school and bonded over a mutual drive to one day build something of their own. Their shared entrepreneurial hunger aligned them with a clear direction: the wellness space was exploding, but the marketing behind it was broken — mismatched, inauthentic, and inaccessible to the small brands doing the most honest work. So they built Small Stages, a platform designed from the ground up to serve the kinds of emerging, organic, health-forward brands that they themselves believed in — and to connect them with creators who genuinely live that lifestyle. Three founders, one city, and a conviction that the right stage doesn't have to be the biggest one.

Join Us

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Whether you're a brand or a creator — your next great partnership is waiting.

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