Helping Youth Achieve Success

By Mike Switzer

Published July 25, 2019 at 5:45 AM EDT

100 years ago our next guest’s national organization began helping young people to be successfully prepared to one day enter the workforce. Since then, they have spawned chapters all across the nation, including several in our state, one of which is run by our next guest.

Mike Switzer interviews Connie Lanzi, president of Junior Achievement of Upstate South Carolina.

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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.

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