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Nervous about making a speech?

South Carolina Business Review
SC Public Radio

Most businesspersons, at one time or another, have to make a presentation or speak to a group of people which oftentimes can be intimidating or confusing. Our next guest’s organization has been helping with this issue for very many years. Mike Switzer interviews Mike Ward with District 58 of Toastmasters International in West Columbia, SC.

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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.