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Most business owners know that they need certain documents and policies to help them attain success and sustainability. But our next guest says that if you run a family business, you may want to look at these documents from a different perspective. Mike Switzer interviews Jon Robertson, a certified financial planner with Abacus Planning Group in Columbia, SC.

It probably wouldn’t surprise you to learn that people who are deaf or hard of hearing have lower rates of college-level education, which means lower paying jobs and higher rates of unemployment. Which is why our next guest’s organization is working to alleviate this situation. Mike Switzer interviews Mary Reaves, the director of programs at BeginningsSC in West Columbia, SC.

Many cities across America have been busy reinventing and reinvigorating some of their long-neglected areas. Columbia has been working on one for several years and it appears that its time might be nigh. Mike Switzer interviews Sabrina Odom Edwards, executive director of the North Columbia Business Association.

Virtually all major composers of the 19th, 20th, and now 21st centuries, of whatever nationality, have made important, and in some cases extensive contributions to the chamber music repertoire.

Now, if ever there was a musician who was entitled to say of a Bartók quartet, “This is the way it goes,” it was Robert Mann. He knew those quartets inside out, and had recorded them more than once.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Sarah Book about why words matter, when discussing alcohol use problems. Dr. Book is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Medical Director of the Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs at MUSC.

You could write a book about the life of the German composer Georg Philipp Telemann– and as it turns out, Telemann himself wrote three – three separate autobiographies.

July 12, 2022 — A recap of recent 2024 campaign movements by two South Carolina lawmakers; a look at Black generational wealth in one Rock Hill, SC neighborhood; information about the invasive species of Asian longhorned ticks recently found in the Palmetto State; and more.

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C. John discusses recent feedback he’s received regarding our ongoing discussion of the possibility of new legislation to reinvigorate our state’s SmartState program. The discussion is leading to entrepreneurs and professors connecting for potential economic activity.

Agriculture is a major economic driver in our state, and our next guest’s government agency is working hard to keep it that way. Mike Switzer interviews William Shelley, farm loan chief for the SC Farm Service Agency state office, part of the US Dept. of Agriculture, in Columbia, SC.