Control What You Can in Life and Money

By Mike Switzer

Published July 4, 2016 at 5:06 AM EDT

Have you ever heard the old adage: “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”? When it comes to saving, investing and ultimately generating income from your assets in retirement, our next guest says it is wise to apply that axiom by knowing the factors that are within our control and those that are not.

Mike Switzer interviews Jesse Hansford, a certified financial planner with Gateway Wealth Strategies in Greenville, SC.

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Mike Switzer

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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