A Risk and Hard Work Lead to Sweet Success
What started out as a search for a part-time job turned into Peachtree Corners resident Diana Hsieh becoming the co-owner of The Chocolaterie at just 27 years old. The Chocolaterie is an artisan chocolate shop located in the oldest remaining building on Main Street in Historic Downtown Duluth. It has a beautiful assort-
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ment of luxury chocolates, gourmet ice cream, handmade fudge and unique gifts.
Humble beginnings Diana was just two years old when her parents moved to Atlanta from Vietnam. When her family arrived, they moved into a one-bedroom apartment across from Turner Field and her father worked two jobs to support them. “Growing up, I fell into the trap of the Asian stereotype and believed that in order to be successful
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in my parent’s eyes, I had to become a doctor, lawyer or engineer,” she said. Her parents fought to make it to America and worked extremely hard to raise her and her brothers. She didn’t want to disappoint them. Over time, she realized that her parents didn’t have those expectations at all. They just wanted her to be happy and successful.
Finding her way In 2015, Diana graduated from the University of Georgia, where she majored in Public Health and Sociology. “The plan after college was to get my Master’s in Public Health and go into disaster management,” she said. “I was frustratpeachtreecornerslife
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Above left to right, co-owner Nancy Rangel, Ally Fowler, manager and co-owner Diana Hsieh. Opposite page, the owners stand in front of a custom mural of some of their great chocolates (pictured below mural) Coned ice cream
ed with not finding a job in my field since the positions I was interested in required years of experience.” Because of this, Diana had to move back home with her parents. “I was pretty disappointed with myself,” she explained. “I really thought that I wasn’t where I was supposed to be. I watched all my friends moving on with their lives and I thought that I should be
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