Two friends, £500 each and a market stall.

A decade later, that market stall is a six figure business.

Lisa Shepherd and Saskia Roskam co-founded The Biskery — a personalised biscuit business built on something genuinely refreshing to hear. A clear set of values that meant refusing to chase growth that would cost them their families.

Saskia went from studying languages and working in digital marketing in Germany to baking her grandmother's recipes from a kitchen in Leeds. Lisa came back from maternity leave and had her senior title quietly taken away. Both of them built something neither corporate world was ever going to offer them.

In this episode:
→ The £500 each, the market stall, and the slow, unglamorous early years
→ The grandmother's recipe at the heart of it all — a quiet legacy from a stay-at-home grandmother who shaped how Saskia grew up eating, and how that connected her and Lisa from the very beginning
→ The co-founder "permission slip" — what it actually takes to build trust and synergy with someone, and giving each other permission to be human first
→ Why they chose slow, steady growth over chasing scale

For the mother who started in one career and is wondering whether her past actually has a place in where she is headed next.

For Lisa and Saskia, it did. There were threads running through their whole story all along — they just had to follow them.