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Children’s athletic footwear is a multi-billion dollar business. And after becoming a finalist in a college entrepreneurship contest in Boston, our next guest is hoping to capture some of that business. Mike Switzer interviews Jeff Goff, founder of Natur Athletics Shoe Company in Indian Land, SC.

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C. John talks about his experience recently at the South Carolina CyberSecurity Conference and how conferences like this can possibly tie into the SmartState system.

The “I” word has become a major topic of conversation these days. We’re talking about inflation, of course. Even that uglier word from the past, “stagflation”, has resurfaced again. Where is it all leading and when will it end? Mike Switzer interviews Frank Hefner, Director, Office of Economic Analysis and Professor of Economics at the College of Charleston.

If you’re allergic to highly technical program notes for classical music concerts, you’re not alone. Most musicians I know find such notes boring and irrelevant, and most non-musicians find them useless, not to mention seriously off-putting. Well, it turns out it’s an old problem, as I discovered when I read a wonderful essay by George Bernard Shaw from 1896.

Musicians, like actors, have to deal with something a drama teacher once called the “paradox of integrity.” On the one hand, you have to be completely “in character” when you’re performing. On the other hand, you have to remember where to put your fingers, and not to make the same mistake tonight you made at the rehearsal yesterday morning.

I won’t mention any names, but many years ago there was a great string quartet that was famous for its members not getting along. People joked that it was a tragedy for this quartet if they showed up in a town that only had three hotels.

Do you find traveling glamorous? Sitting around in airports, waiting in lines, carrying luggage, eating in unfamiliar places, sleeping in unfamiliar beds? Well imagine doing that for about ten months a year, and imagine doing it alone, while having to prove, over and over again every single week, that you’re one of the best in the world at what you do.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Habib Rizk about the role that certain foods and drinks can play in triggering migraine episodes for people who suffer from migraines. Dr. Rizk is an Associate Professor in Otology and Neurotology and Director of the Vestibular Program at MUSC.

“H” is for Hanahan (Berkeley and Charleston Counties; 2020 population 25, 743).

“G” is for German Friendly Society. Oldest of all German male social organizations in Charleston, the German Friendly Society was founded in 1766 by sixteen German men.