Up in Your Business with Kerry McCoy

Ep 193 | Aired 5/21/2020 Today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy, you’ll hear from a young man who is leading a double life, Mr. Samuel Ellis. Mr. Ellis is an environmental scientist by day, a fiddler in a country band by night and has turned his passion for rivers into a business by founding Rock Town River Outfitters, in Little Rock’s River Market District, on the Arkansas River. Rock Town...

Ep 192 | Aired 5/13/2020 Eric Chesher received a BA in Music Performance degrees in vocal performance and piano performance and a B.S. pre-med in Biology and Psychology from Heidelberg University, located in Tiffin Ohio. He is a Producer/Engineer with over 25 years experience in the Music Industry in performance, writing, producing, management, and marketing. His resume’ includes Capital Records,...

Ep 191 | Aired 5/6/2020 Stephen Wirges is a piano tuner, technician, and owner of Steinway Piano Gallery Little Rock, LLC. He tunes for numerous private individuals, churches, schools, studios, piano teachers, professional pianists, and performing art centers. “I’ve been working on pianos for about eighteen years and I started as an apprentice and did about an eight-year apprenticeship and started...

Ep 190 | Aired 4/29/2020 Question: What crazy person nearing retirement age would buy a small, struggling, neighborhood grocery store in Little Rock, Arkansas? Answer: Mr. Eric Herget. A successful veteran of the insurance business, Eric tells the romantic story of how he followed his heart, changed his career, and came to own Terry’s Finer Foods (now known as Heights Corner Market). The apple doe...

Ep 189 | Aired 4/22/2020 If you love music and, more specifically, the music of artists from Arkansas, then tune in to Up In Your Business today. We have two guests who not only share their lives, but also their creativity and love of music: operatically trained vocalist and editor at the Arkansas Times Stephanie Smittle, and her partner, Stephen Koch, founder and host of the syndicated radio show...

Ep 187 | Aired 4/15/2020 Governor Mike Beebe (aka Mickey Dale Beebe) was born in Amagon, Arkansas in 1946. He graduated Arkansas State University in in 1968 with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science. He was elected to the Arkansas State Senate in 1982 and served there for the next 20 years. In 2003, Beebe was elected Attorney General of Arkansas. In 2006, Beebe won the Governor’s race and serv...

This week, join us for a special interview with the Director of the Arkansas Small Business Administration, Edward Haddock. Mr. Haddock is returning to Up In Your Business to talk about what the SBA is doing to help small businesses, and giving answers to your questions about navigating the application process for grants and loans during this public health and economic crisis. What You Need to App...

On today’s Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy, you’ll hear radiologist and lifestyle medicine specialist, Dr. Jason Beck, talk about living longer, eating better, and managing stress. “Dr. Vegan,” as his friends call him, has a passion for spreading the healing powers and nutritional benefits of a plant-based diet. So much so, that he recently became board certified by the American College of Li...

Ep 185 | Aired 3/25/2020 Originally from Connecticut, Landscape Designer Chris Olsen’s family moved to Little Rock where he spent a few years before moving to San Diego, then back to Arkansas in 1992. Olsen attended Oxford University in England, studying landscape architecture, landscape principals, and philosophy and also graduated from the University of San Diego with a degree in business. Chris...

Ep 184 | Aired 3/18/2020 Keith Jackson was born April 19, 1965 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He began playing football at the age of 9 with the Sunset Tigers in his hometown. His love of the game continued throughout junior high school on into high school at Little Rock Parkview, where he was Parade All-American and three-sport letterman. While in high school, Keith played the cello in the orchestra....

Ep 183 | Originally Aired 09/25/19, Re-Aired 3/11/2020 Change of plans, the governor just called an emergency task force meeting about the coronavirus so Mr. Frank Scott had to cancel, understandably. Instead, we will be replaying our Special SoMa show. The Up in Your Business creative team pulled out all the stops for this show. DJ legend, Tom Wood, put his editing skills to the test when he cut,...

Ep 182 | Aired 3/4/2020 I’m currently in Atlanta, GA, speaking to the Future Farmers of America about what I have learned are the qualities of good leadership. So, today on Up In Your Business, we are rerunning one of my favorite interviews from January 2018 with the Very Reverend Father and retired Dean of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Dr. Chris Keller. Get ready to hear some pearls of wisdom and...

Ep 181 | Aired 2/26/2020 The word of the day on Up In Your Business today is ‘consortium,’ because that is what my guest, Ms. Garbo Hearne, has created on 12th Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. Garbo is the founder and visionary of Hearne Fine Art Gallery, Hearne Fine Art Consulting and Appraisal Services and Pyramid Art, Books and Custom Framing. Before taking the entrepreneurial leap, Garbo was a...

Ep 180 | Aired 2/19/2020 In keeping with our black history month theme, my team at Up In Your Business has created a special show with interviews of two prior guests, Ms. Janice Kearney, presidential diarist for President Bill Clinton, and Mr. Edmond Davis, author, historian and teacher at Arkansas Baptist College. --- Born in Gould, Arkansas, Janis Kearney was one of eighteen children of parents...

Listen to Learn: How the church influenced Dr. Hampton’s civic involvement The myriad of tests that African Americans had to pass in order to be considered for integration History of the Little Rock Nine What she learned after traveling through Arkansas about the population she sees as at the most economic risk. Sybil Jordan (Hampton) was born on September 1, 1944 in Springfield, Missouri to Lorra...

Ep 178 | Aired 2/5/2020 Join us this week as we revisit Kerry’s conversation with two influential local restaurateurs; Chef Matt Bell - who will be leaving his position at South on Main this month - and Don Dugan of Dugan’s Pub, who is stepping in to fill Matt’s big shoes at the iconic Main Street restaurant and performance venue. Both share their take on the ups and downs of running a restaurant,...

Ep 176 | Originally Aired 1/22/2020 Jim Guy Tucker was born on June 13, 1943, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to James Guy and Willie Maude (White) Tucker. His father was one of the first 50 employees of the newly formed Social Security Administration in February,1936.His family moved to Little Rock in February of 1945 when his father was relocated as the manager of the Arkansas Social Security Admini...

Ep 175 | Originally Aired 4/21/17 Jean-Paul Francoeur: Jean-Paul built a thriving personal-training business and he owned the a high-end heath club called JP Fitness for 16 years before he sold it in 2008. He was the “Golf Performance and Functional Training Specialist” at Alotian Golf Club several years and now is a certified ARPwave therapist helping people with injuries and chronic pain get bac...

Ep 174 | Air Date 1/8/2020 Joe David Rice was born and grew up in northeast Arkansas. He attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and earned his master’s degree in environmental Planning from the University of Illinois. He returned to Arkansas and became the co-owner of an outfitting business on the Buffalo National River. He left that position to become the state of Arkansas tourism di...

Ep 173 | Aired 1/1/2020 Time for another throwback Up in Your Business! This week, we’ll be broadcasting Part II of a two-part compilation of the “Best of 2019." As I mentioned, my behind the scenes production team, Tom and Ashley, have been laboriously and lovingly listening to past interviews and have picked their favorite excerpts. Like you, it’s a surprise to me, too. Last week I listened to e...

Ep 172 | Aired 12/25/2019 It’s “Throw Back Wednesday and Friday!” "Wait? What? That doesn’t work," you're probably saying. Oh, yes it does. For the next 2 weeks on UIYB we’ll be broadcasting a compilation of the “Best of 2019.” My behind the scenes production team, Tom and Ashley, have been laboriously and lovingly listening to past interviews and have picked their favorite excerpts. Even I don’t...

Ep # 171 | Aired 12/18/2019 Vicki Calhoun grew up in a military family then married into the military. She has lived in five different countries and six states. She was born into a military family. Her mother was from England U.K. and her father was from Kentucky. They met when he was in the Air Force and was stationed in England as an Air Traffic controller. Vicki began her freshman year of high...

Ep 170 | Aired 12/11/2019 Chris James, is a national award-winning poet. His plays include Dear Black People and The Odds Against US. He has been featured on the front cover of the Arkansas Times Newspaper for being one of Arkansas’ top visionaries. James is a member of Foreign Tongues poetry slam team, ranking second in the world’s second largest poetry competition in 2014. He is the founder of A...

Ep 169 | Aired 12/4/2019 Ernie Dumas, 82, is one of the state's most highly regarded journalists. He spent more than 30 years with the Arkansas Gazette, primarily as a political and state government reporter. He was also an associate editor, an editorial writer and a columnist until the newspaper folded in 1991. Since then, he has continued to write for several publications, including the Arkansas...

Ep 168 | Aired 11/27/2019 Steve Dean and Don Goodman sat down with Kerry McCoy to share how a dream can launch a career, how music facilitates healing, and how Operation Song reaches veterans with a creative way to conquer PTSD.