When Marie Thurot began her career her father, a successful business leader, would often tell her that her tendency to zig where others zagged meant she would wind up no better than “a potato peeler.”
Today Thurot is still making her own way, but her prospects are a fair sight better than Assistant Spud Stripper. A 32-year-old mother of two from the south of France, Thurot didn’t truly find her calling until just two years ago, but she’s been busily making up for lost time by building her own successful TLC business.
Multi-level marketing is not always a glamorous business, and it requires a great deal of persistence and willingness to potentially annoy friends and family. Thurot learned this firsthand from her friend and former coworker Mélaine Bernard who would also ultimately become her sponsor. Bernard recently became Europe’s first TLC Global Director, but back in 2013 she was new to network marketing and her pitch to Thurot fell on deaf ears.
“I really liked working with Mélaine,” Thurot remembers, “until one day she went on maternity leave and never came back! MLM wasn’t well-known in France at the time, and when she tried to call me about an opportunity I turned her