Downsizing. It’s a nasty world. It can shake your reality not to mention your bank account. Sometimes you feel as though you’re hanging in between worlds… the familiar and the unknown (I admit I often felt that way). Just holding tight. However, contrary to some people’s thoughts, life is not over when the traditional corporate job ends. Not to sound overly optimistic but — — it’s often an opportunity to reinvent yourself to who you never knew you were or to develop the talents you thought were ‘no big deal.’  Recently I had the pleasure of meeting a special lady whose story is not only inspiring but delicious – so to speak! Briana Carson’s 20 year telcom corporate job ended and an encore career began with enrollment in culinary school to perfect her skills in savory cooking. However, culinary school would take Briana in yet a different direction. To her surprise she fell in love with pie baking and her vision changed once more. She left culinary school and spent almost a year perfecting the craft of making artisan pies. After selling her pies at local festivals and farmers’ markets she opened a retail shop in a town just north of Atlanta and Crave Pie Studio began yet another part of Briana’s new adventures. PiEvangelist Briana Carson’s Story Toby, Bloomberg Marketing: Your story as a pie baker is an inspiration especially for people who want to start “encore careers.”  Let’s begin your story by telling how you developed a passion for pie making when you began down the culinary road with a focus on savory foods.  Briana Carson, Crave Pie Studio: I came to be a pie baker quite late in life. I did not learn how to bake at my grandmothers side, nor did I inherit family heirloom recipes.  Actually, I never even liked baking or sweets until I fell in love with pie a few years ago. In 2010 I was laid off from a 20 year career with a global telecommunications company. As a woman of faith, I prayed to God for work that would be meaningful and a blessing to others, but I really had no idea what it would be. I never would have imagined it would be as a pie baker! Since I had a lifelong love of food and cooking, I decided culinary school would be...