by babysitting. However, that’s not the story of Tori Molnar when she was 13; she started her own direct sells company for girls called Utoria. Now at the young age of 15 and a sophomore at high school; she has become a serial entrepreneur and a demanding schedule for a 15-year old and with all of her meetings, traveling and appointments. Teen2Teen Magazine was able to catch up with Tori and find out about her businesses, goals and what inspired her down entrepreneurial path.
T2T - Where did you get the idea to start your own business and how old were you? What types of businesses are Utoria and She Can Make Change?
TM - I always knew I wanted to start a business. It was my freshman year in high school and my idea addressed the need of my peers so I knew it could be successful. Although I was always tossing around new ideas, I decided to focus on and pursue Utoria because
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it aligned with my passion—empowering the girls around me—and helped me achieve my ultimate goal—to be an entrepreneur. I was 13 years-old at the time. I’m a year ahead in school. Utoria is a direct sales company for young women. It’s a way for them to not only earn money but learn basic business skills that they will be able to use for the rest of their lives. When I say direct sales, I’m talking about businesses such as Avon, Mary Kay, Pampered Chef, etc. She Can Make Change is a non-profit organization I founded to empower young women to put change not only in their pockets but in the world around them. We’re currently designing our programs to be released later this year. T2T - In your early years, you had to endure some obstacles in your personal life with cerebral palsy. How were you able to overcome it and move forward in your life? TM - Lots and lots of physical therapy, and prayer. I never really pitied myself because my mom wouldn’t let me. My mother even refused to get a handicap permit
for her car! She would tell the doctors that I am fully capable of walking and if I couldn’t that was just additional therapy. I am and was even earlier in life, in a much better physical condition than most kids affected. Most times I would forget I even had it. So that’s how I overcame it, with the will that I would beat the odds.