At 50, most people are thinking about winding down; Kathryn Bricken decided to start again. The Miami-born founder turned a side project—balling cookie dough with an ice-cream scoop in her garage—into Doughlicious, a multi-million-dollar sweet-treat brand that produces more than a million cookie dough and gelato bites every single week.
Her route there was anything but straightforward. Bricken says she was “food-obsessed” long before Doughlicious—cooking with her mum, working the tills at Publix—but spent her early career in corporate America; first as a Legislative Correspondent in Capitol Hill, then in health care policy work with a senator before becoming a lobbyist at the Health Insurance Association of America.
