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The importance of speech therapy to the business community

Elizabeth "Liz" Smithson, speech language pathologist with Innovative Pediatric Therapy in Charleston, SC
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Elizabeth "Liz" Smithson, speech language pathologist with Innovative Pediatric Therapy in Charleston, SC

Anyone in the business community will tell you that communication skills are very important. Our next guest says that developing those skills starts early in childhood. Mike Switzer interviews Elizabeth Smithson, a speech language pathologist with Innovative Pediatric Therapy in Charleston, 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.