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When Riss was 10 years old, she told her parents she wanted to draw for a living.
Good news: They were also artistically inclined, and her dream was “quickly embraced,” she says. She got serious about it in high school, and eventually went to art school for a degree in illustration and graphic design. But she wanted to do more than get a degree, so in 2007, she launched an Etsy page and started selling commissioned art pieces and handmade clay charms. By 2010, the shop was making enough to become Riss’s full-time job. So, that year, she officially turned her brand Tasty Peach into a company.
Since then, Tasty Peach has grown to a massive digital and brick-and-mortar …