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Celebrities from Bill Murray to Blake Lively are fans of our next guest’s feather fashion accessory business. And now, so is Garden and Gun magazine as the company was the recent winner in the Style category of the magazine’s annual Made in the South awards program. Mike Switzer interviews Ben Ross, co-founder of Brackish in Charleston, SC.

You may have noticed that there are not a lot of women in the construction business. Our next guest is trying to change that as co-founder of the Palmetto Chapter of the National Association of Women in Construction. She was recently honored for her work in this area by the YWCA Greater Charleston. Mike Switzer interviews Janet Bates, client solutions manager at JE Dunn Construction Company in North Charleston, SC.

“G is for Gantt, Harvey (b. 1943)

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Nichole Tanner about lung cancer screening as a tool to help with earlier diagnosis and treatment of this disease. Dr. Tanner is a Professor in the College of Medicine and she is the Co-Director of the Lung Cancer Screening Program at Hollings Cancer Center at MUSC.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Eva Serber about the benefits of exercise to improve mood and help reduce feelings of depression. Dr. Serber is a Health Psychologist and Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, in the Division of Division of Bio-behavioral Medicine at MUSC.

James Lundy's book, The History of the Poetry Society of South Carolina: 1920 to 2021, is a chronicle of the first 100 years of the oldest state poetry society in America, the Poetry Society of South Carolina. Founded in Charleston in 1920 by DuBose Heyward, John Bennett, Josephine Pinckney, Hervey Allen, and Laura Bragg, the Society's first 101 seasons run from the Jazz Age to the COVID era, where everyone from Carl Sandburg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Frost, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, Ogden Nash, Billy Collins, Sherwood Anderson, Jericho Brown, Thornton Wilder, Robert Pinsky, and hundreds of others appeared before the membership.Talking with Walter Edgar, Lundy, also currently the Society's president, gives us an insider's view, with insights into the inner workings and disfunctions of the organization and its slow progress from a Whites-only organization of the segregated South founded in the aftermath of World War I and the Spanish Flu Pandemic, through the Roaring Twenties, into the darkness of the Great Depression, World War II, a resurgence during the Atomic Age, the turbulent Sixties, the decline of Charleston, its rebound into a tourist mecca, and into the present day.

Like it or not, performers can’t help evaluating performance, especially in the cases of pieces we know or instruments we play.

Professional opera singers often have to sing in languages with which they’re completely unfamiliar. And yet they’re expected to pronounce all the words correctly. How do they do it?

If you haven’t heard, there could be some changes coming soon to Roth IRAs as a result of tax changes being proposed in President Biden’s Build Back Better plan. Mike Switzer interviews Thomas Manly, a certified financial planner with Hobbs Group Advisors in Columbia, SC.

Factories of old are certainly not the factories of today. And factories of the future may not even be recognizable. Which is why our next guest’s institution of higher learning recently received $5 million in funding to study future factories. Their research will look at how factories of the future “think” and how humans and non-humans can interact to anticipate consumer needs and avoid supply chain issues like the ones we’re seeing now. Mike Switzer interviews Dr. Ramy Harik, associate professor of mechanical engineering at the McNAIR Center at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC.