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Expanding employment opportunities for the disabled

By Mike Switzer

Published September 18, 2024 at 6:30 AM EDT

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Our next guest’s nonprofit not only works to advance opportunities for disabled individuals, they also walk the talk as more than 3/4 of their staff and over half of their board of directors are people with disabilities. And if you are a business owner, manager, or HR professional you may want to know about their annual Employer Summit, which is coming soon. Mike Switzer interviews Marly Saade, with Able SC in Columbia, S.C.

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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.

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