November 30, 2018
Laurie Gray
Owner of The Pie Bar, Long Beach, CA | https://thepiebarlongbeach.com/
I grew up on a ten-acre ranch on Washington State. We raised our own fruits and vegetables and we had animals and we had Arabian horses and it was a great childhood. My mom was a stay-at-home mom and she made everything from scratch; she was always cooking and baking and she taught me how to bake when I was really young. And then fast forward, I become an adult and I marry my high school sweetheart, start a family, and I get into banking as a career. I left the bank world; I was tired, I’d done everything I could do: marketing manager, branch manager, loan officer… I just was bored and I was moving 40 miles north and I was like, “Ok, this is a good time to break.” I was sitting at home one night watching the food network and these two ladies in Georgia had started this pie company out of their garage. I called my friend and I was like, “Do you want to start a pie company with me?” We each put 500 buc...