A 15-year-old girl was given $25k to help take her sauce business to the next level.
Tyla-Simone Crayton of Missouri City, Texas, isn’t the typical high schooler who might be looking for her first job. This brainy honor student, who receives awards in academic excellence and critical thinking, has already started her own business.
When she isn’t busy at school, she’s busy running her own company. Tyla is the company CEO and mastermind behind Sienna Sauce, aka “You Won’t Stop Licking Your Fingers” Sauce.
She relocated from Brooklyn to the Sienna Plantation area of Texas, and in an effort to recreate a sauce she was missing from back home, she managed to come up with something even better. She named that new sauce “Sienna Sauce” after her new community in Missouri City.
In 2017, she launched her company from her home kitchen, and the company has been growing ever since. These days, she has help running her company from her mother, Monique Crayton, who chefs up the wings for their sauce.
She also has her aunt, Nia Crooks, who is the marketing genius that has helped push the company into the spotlight and onto store shelves.
Now, this 15-year-old “sauce boss” has been given the opportunity to take her company even further. Tyla visited ABC’s talk show Strahan and Sara, where she was awarded the cash for her sauce business. When pitching her business on the show, she let them know that success for her means success for a whole community of others in need, as well.
And even though her recipe captured their taste buds, her story definitely captured their hearts, too.
The $25,000 reward will not only benefit Tyla, but also those who work alongside her.
Tyla says that she will use the money she won to revamp the brand, and also help expand their distributor program that helps others.
In an interview after being awarded the money, Tyla’s mother, Monique, said, “We want to use some of the money to give back within our distribution program. Where we can allow to decrease the price of enrollment.”
