Our next guest says that if kids are hopping, jumping, and running while they are learning math, English and other school subjects, they will not only be fitter, but will learn better.
Mike Switzer interviews Dr. Julian Reed, founder of ActivEd, which recently received the Innovation in Education Award from South Carolina's Innovision Awards program. He is also among the nation’s leading researchers exploring the relationship between obesity, cognition and academic achievement.
After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.