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Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C. Today John discusses the population gap between the nation and our state when it comes to the professional class.

Most financial planners will tell you that the overall goal of a good plan is to help you live your best possible life. But our next guest says that many of the families he meets do not really understand what that looks like. Joining Mike Switzer by phone from Greenville is Rick Van Der Noord, a certified financial planner with over 40 years in the profession.

The harpsichord, the keyboard workhorse of the Baroque period, is an instrument with a problem: varying the touch on the keys has absolutely no effect on volume or tone quality. Depress a key gently or pound on it, it doesn’t matter — the note will sound the same.

One sector of the stock market that has done particularly well over the past 12 months is the energy sector, driven mostly by significantly higher oil and gas prices. Is this segment due for a breather? Mike Switzer interviews Peter Nielsen, a chartered financial analyst and adjunct professor of finance at Anderson University in Anderson, SC. He joins us by phone today from his office at Independent Solutions Wealth Management in Greer, SC where he is a portfolio manager. He is also a member of the South Carolina chapter of the CFA Society.

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C. John discusses feedback from a listener regarding last week’s topic of retaining and growing the professional class in our state.

The Dr. Charles Townes Individual Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Innovision honors an individual who has exhibited a sustained commitment to the advancement of technology and the community for the benefit of our state. The award is named after the only person other than the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa to win both a Nobel Prize and a Templeton Prize. Mike Switzer interviews the most recent recipient of this prestigious award, Dr. Martine LaBerge, a professor and chair of Bioengineering at Clemson University. She was also recently inducted into the South Carolina Hall of Fame.

March 12, 2022 — We discuss the omnibus spending bill recently approved by Congress and what it means for South Carolina, the passage Sen. Tim Scott's (R-SC) anti-lynching legislation, the activity this week at the state house, and more.

singers use vibrato, too—although use isn’t exactly the right word. Vibrato happens, is more like it.

I’ve been talking this week about vibrato, the vibrato that string players use to warm up their sounds, and the vocal vibrato that’s the natural product of healthy singing. All vibrato consists of small oscillations in pitch, but not all vibrato is a blessing.

March 15, 2022 — We bring you an in-depth look at former President Donald Trump's recent rally in Florence, SC for candidates he's endorsing to challenge two incumbent congressional Republicans. Also in this episode: the constitutional convention bill passed by the state Senate last week; new unemployment data; and more.