Up in Your Business with Kerry McCoy

Ep 220 | Aired 11/25/2020 Who doesn’t want to live the romantic life of an artist, who travels and paints the beauty of nature? That’s what romance novels are written about and what my guests today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy actually do. Husband and wife team, Tracee and Pat Matthews, are never seen without some hint of paint on their clothes. And they love it! Pat Matthews, born to t...

Ep 218 | Aired 11/11/2020 Today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy, I have the pleasure of interviewing the youngest indie comic book publishers in America, the creative husband and wife team, Mitch and Elizabeth Breitweiser. Though we may all feel like comic book characters are everywhere in our block buster movies and video games, the truth is very few new ones are being made and especially...

Ep 217 | Aired 11/4/2020 After years of community service and an illustrious political career, my guest today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy, Mr. Skip Rutherford, has decided to step out of the limelight this December and retire from his role as Dean of the Clinton School of Public Service. It was 1978 when Mr. Rutherford became interested in politics and volunteered to work on David Pryo...

Ep 216 | Aired 10/28/2020 My guest today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy is someone that has been in the news a lot lately: Congressman French Hill of the US House of Representatives. The first time I had the pleasure of interviewing Congressman Hill was in 2016, when he graciously accepted my invitation to appear on my radio show. French, as I have come to call him, was only my 6th interv...

Ep 215 | Aired 10/22/2020 This week on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy, I’ll be sitting down with Arkansas Senator Joyce Elliott, who is running for Congress against the incumbent Congressman French Hill. If you live in Arkansas, you have seen the hundreds of commercials being aired by both contenders and know that, in her youth, Ms. Elliott was a pioneer in integration and a longtime schoolt...

Ep 214 | Aired 10/14/2020 This week on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy, I’ll be sitting down with Ms. Olivia Farrell, a woman that has broken the rules and the glass ceiling over and over again; first at the Arkansas Times, when she donned the cover of their 1977 Living It UP In High Style edition with a lit joint, then again in 1995 by becoming CEO and principal owner of Arkansas Business Pu...

Ep 213 | Aired 10/7/2020 This week on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy, I’ll be sitting down with the retired Honorable Judge Mr. Robert L. Brown. You may not readily know his name, but you know his work and are living by some of the rules and laws he studied, argued, and enacted while serving as associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1991 until his retirement in 2012. This man o...

Ep 212 | Aired 9/30/2020 Today, it’s a family affair on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy. Our show editor, Tom Wood, has meshed two previous interviews with then-Representative Mr. Clarke Tucker, his father, Rett Tucker, and his sister Kathryn Tucker, to bring us a single, one hour, “best of” show. The Tucker family comes from a long line of over achievers and public servants. Clarke is the gr...

Ep 211 | Aired 9/23/2020 In the autobiography of The Education of Ernie Dumas, the author admiringly describes Jim Guy as a “swashbuckler.” I had to look it up. "A swashbuckler is a heroic archetype in European adventure literature that is typified by the use of a sword, acrobatics and chivalric ideals." After reading about today’s guest, I concur with Mr. Dumas’s summation of Arkansas’s 43rd Gove...

Ep 209 | Aired 9/9/2020 My guest today on Up in Your Business is the president of one of the oldest family businesses in Arkansas; Justin Wittenberg of Ruebel Funeral Home. Founded in 1901 on 6th and Main Streets, Ruebel is the oldest funeral home in Little Rock. It was in 1953 when Justin’s grandfather, Mr. George Wittenberg, hired on to the already established business as Secretary and eventuall...

Ep 208 | Aired 9/2/2020 What an upheaval this year has been to everyone’s routine, including ours at Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy. Though we have really enjoyed hearing replays of some of our past interviews, it is exciting to get back into the studio with our newest guest, Mr. John Burkhalter. Mr. Burkhalter is an inventor. After one of his patents (and he has many) became monetarily succ...

Ep 207 | Aired 8/26/2020 Are you ready to be inspired? My guest today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy is a licensed minister, life strategist coach, talk show host, and motivational speaker, Ms. Arnessa Bennett, MDiv, CDP, who says on her website, “Living a blessed life is a choice, there are so many things to be grateful for. Let your focus be on what’s good in your life.” Boy, do we need...

Ep 206 | Aired 8/19/2020 My guest today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy is business magnate and self-made millionaire, Mr. Frank Fletcher. If you have lived in or ever visited Arkansas, then chances are you have patronized one of Mr. Fletcher’s many businesses, from hotels and restaurants, to manufacturing, car lots and, yes, even a fur store. Though young Frank had been a successful leade...

Ep 205 | Aired 8/12/2020 Today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy, we're listening to an interview with radio personalities Leslie Singer and Phil Kaplan, the hilarious duo known by their followers as the Two Jewish Guys. It's one of the funniest interviews I've ever done; I was rolling on the floor laughing before the show even started (check out the YouTube video, below). Leslie, an adman,...

Ep 204 | Aired 8/5/2020 My guest today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy is Paula Dempsey, founder and owner of Dempsey Bakery. This unique bakery is the only gluten, soy, and nut free bakery within a 500-mile radius of downtown Little Rock. Some of you may remember Paula and her husband, Demp Dempsey, as the working owners and founders of Dempsey Film Group. In a 6-month freefall, the burge...

Ep 203 | Aired 7/29/2020 The guest today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy is my longtime acquaintance, successful businessman and attorney, Mr. Gary Green. I first met Gary when we each rented a small apartment in a rundown house on Kavanaugh Blvd. It was the late 70’s and the Hillcrest neighborhood was still suffering the aftermath of white flight to the suburbs. The rent in this part of t...

Ep 202 | Aired 7/22/2020 My guest today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy is the First Lady of Arkansas, Susan Hutchinson. I loved hearing her recount the charming story of how she first met and courted Governor Asa Hutchinson at Bob Jones University in South Carolina. But don’t be fooled by Ms Hutchinson demeanor. She is brilliant. She is also a classically trained pianist who believes it i...

Ep 201 | Aired 7/15/2020 Today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy we're looking back on my interview with Charles Morgan, the founder, chairman and CEO, from 1972 – 2008, of Acxiom, the pioneering and leading data base company headquartered in Central Arkansas. An extraordinary entrepreneur and visionary, he is also really fun, outspoken, and a racecar driver. While many of his colleagues hav...

Ep 200 | Aired 7/8/2020 My guest today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy is a jack-of-all-trades: Dr. Henri Roca. This big-brained medical doctor’s first degree was in geoengineering and his first successful career was working for big oil and gas companies. Somewhere in his 30’s, he had what I’d call an identity crisis and went soul searching in California. While there, he became a masseuse,...

Ep 199 | Aired 7/1/2020 Join me today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy, as I speak with entrepreneur, longtime friend, and clothing designer for the stars, Ms. Connie Fails. Fails has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Vanity Fair, People, Today Show, and on Good Morning America. I first met Connie while she sat sewing in her small shop above "Run of The Mill,"...

Ep 198 | Aired 6/24/2020 This week on Up in Your Business, we’ll listen back to a local legend; retired meteorologist, artist, musician and songwriter, Mr. Ned Perme. On the show, Ned talks about his 40-year career as a nightly weatherman and how the industry has changed from paper graphics to green screens, remote broadcasting, and meteorologists with credentials. And he tells the endearing story...

Ep 197 | Aired 6/17/2020 Joey Lauren Adams was born in North Little Rock, Arkansas, the youngest of three children. Her father was a lumber yard owner. Adams grew up in the Overbrook neighborhood of North Little Rock and graduated from North Little Rock Northeast High School in 1986. She announced her intention to pursue acting after one year as an exchange student in Australia. In 1991, Adams app...

Ep 196 | Aired 6/10/2020 Sheffield Nelson was born in Keevil near Brinkley in eastern Arkansas. He graduated from Brinkley High School and received his undergraduate degree in mathematics education from the University of Central Arkansas at Conway, where he was the student body president. He obtained a law degree in 1969 from the William H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas at Litt...

Ep 195 | Aired 6/3/2020 This week, we’ll listen back to two interviews; one with local public radio legend John Cain, and the other with Wade Rathke, founder of ACORN. Listen to hear two inspiring individuals talk about jazz history, social justice reform, and dealing with racism in the early days of public radio.

Ep 194 | Aired 5/27/2020 Today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy, you’ll hear one of my early interviews with newspaper man, entrepreneur and second generation farmer, Mr. Alan Leveritt. In this interview, Alan tells the story of how, in 1974, with only a few friends, he launched the Arkansas Times; a grass roots, alternative monthly magazine about political and cultural news in Arkansas. Al...