Creating an Identity Protection Plan

By Mike Switzer

Published October 15, 2019 at 5:39 AM EDT

It seems almost weekly we hear of another security breach that has impacted the personal information of thousands to millions of Americans. Our next guest says that you if haven’t done so, now is the time to create an identity protection plan.

Mike Switzer interviews Bethany Griffith, a certified financial planner and senior financial advisor at Abacus Planning Group in Columbia, South Carolina.

Resources: annualcreditreport.com, haveibeenpwned.com, donotcall.gov

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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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