E22: Biscuits, Business, and Balance with Carrie Morey of Callie's Hot Little Biscuit

Oct 21

In 2005, Carrie Morey started a biscuit business from her kitchen with a baby on her hip, a mom who thought it was a terrible idea, and a conviction that family would always come first. Twenty years later, Callie's Hot Little Biscuit is a nationally recognized Southern brand—and Carrie never missed a single thing that mattered.

This conversation is about what it actually looks like to build something meaningful without sacrificing the life you're building it for.

What We Talk About In This Episode

How Carrie launched a mail-order biscuit business in 2005 before most people understood e-commerce
Why she kept the brakes on growth for years,and why she doesn't regret it
What it looks like to build a business around motherhood instead of the other way around
The moment she realized you can pull back, regroup, and start again
The highs and lows of scaling a handmade product to national retail
A post-show update from Callie herself, Carrie's mother and the original biscuit maker, on that "terrible idea" twenty years later