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Check Your Emotions at the Door and Keep Employees More

Mike Switzer
Mike Switzer

  Ask any business owner what their biggest challenge is and you will probably hear: “finding and keeping qualified employees.” Our next guest says that if the business is providing an emotionally healthy environment, then the odds are employee turnover will be half of what it would be otherwise.

Mike Switzer interviews Leslie Bessellieu, a clinical psychologist and executive coach in Columbia, SC and Chairperson of the SC Psychological Association's Psychologically Healthy Workplace Awards Program.

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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.