Up in Your Business with Kerry McCoy

Ep 167 | Aired 11/20/2019 Will Trice is the newly appointed Executive Artistic Director of the Arkansas Repertory Theatre. He has served as a producer for nearly 30 productions on Broadway, the West End, and National Tours, and is a three-time Tony Award winner for All The Way, starring Bryan Cranston; the Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; and The Gershwins' Porgy & Be...

The time has finally arrived for 2019’s Dancing Into Dreamland Tournament of Champions event. It’s like birthing a baby with a scheduled C-section. It begins with the act of picking the event night followed by nine months of preparation. It all culminates this Friday night, November 15, atop the Taborian Hall, aka home of Arkansas Flag and Banner. In honor of this event, Up In Your Business will b...

Ep 165 | Aired 11/6/2019 During his 38 years of service in the United States Army, Wesley K. Clark rose to the rank of four-star general as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. Since retiring from the military in 2000, he has become an investment banker, businessman, commentator, author and teacher. In September 2003, he answered the call to stand as a Democratic candidate for President of the...

Ep 164 | Aired 10/30/2019 Two Jewish Guys With an estimated 1,500 Jews in Little Rock and 500 or so more living elsewhere throughout Arkansas, the percentage of Jews in Arkansas is less than 0.001%. It is unusual, then, that a couple of Jewish men (Leslie Singer and Phil Kaplan) would be the must-see comedy act during the Christmas season in Little Rock. Singer grew up in the Bronx and on Long Isl...

Ep 163 | Aired 10/23/2019 Listen to Learn: How military service instills confidence and commitment The team expertise required to run a tank How military personnel deal with change of Commander in Chief Three reasons soldiers re-enlist What AUSA is, what it does, how you can help family challenges of serving in the military Sergeant Major of the Army Kenneth O. Preston served as the 13th Sergeant...

Episode 162 | Aired 10/16/2019 Listen to Learn: How your lifestyle contributes to chronic disease How treating symptoms will not cure chronic disease What functional medicine is How an elimination/reintroduction diet is used to unmask root causes of symptoms What a health coach does What "leaky gut" is and what symptoms it causes Dr. Amy Beard runs a completely online Functional Medicine practice,...

Beau Renfro is a member of the Rock-a-Billy Hall of Fame in Jackson, Tennessee. He is an entertainer, song writer and singer. Beau's music career started in a church in Forrest City, Arkansas. He learned to sing by listening to his mother and sisters sing old Gospel songs. All nine of his sisters played a role in the evolution of Beau’s music. His sister Jean paid for his first guitar and sisters...

Ep #160 | Aired 10/2/2019 Bill Eginton opened Arkansas Record-CD Exchange 35 years ago in 1985 at 4212 MacArthur Drive in North Little Rock, AR. Three years later, a fire destroyed the store. After a temporary move, the store was rebuilt and has grown from a record collector’s dream. It now houses the state’s largest vinyl retail outlet. For over three decades, Eginton has been selling, buying & t...

Episode 159 | Aired 9/25/2019 You are in for a real treat! 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, pasted and compiled four different guest interviews that spanned three years for your listening enjoyment. What is the common thread that holds them all together? They’re all located in Little R...

Ep #159 | Aired 9/18/2019 C. Lowry Barnes, M.D. is one of Arkansas’ and the region’s foremost joint replacement experts. He was named chair of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in August, 2014 and holds the Carl L. Nelson, M.D. Chair in Orthopedic Surgery. Barnes graduated with honors from the UAMS College of Medicine in 1986. He went on...

Episode #157 | Aired 9/11/2019 Join us this week for a special Patriot Day episode, where we revisit conversations with two guests who were deeply affected by the events of 9/11; the Reverend Doctor Stuart Hoke who recounts his experience at Trinity Wall Street on the day the towers came down, and Sophia Said, who's life as a Muslim was changed forever.

Community Bakery owner, Joe Fox, is a well-educated man. He attended UA Little Rock for his undergraduate degree in Engineering Technology, then studied Economics at Stanford University and earned an MBA from Harvard. His time in Boston coupled with his love of business led to his weekly habit of reading the Sunday New York Times. When he returned to Little Rock from Boston, he found there were no...

Episode #155 | Aired 8/28/2019 Hank Kelley grew up in Heber Springs, AR. He received his Bachelors of Business Administration from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville where he graduated with honors. In the late 1970s he went to work in the northwest Arkansas real estate market and during that time met and married former Little Rock Mayor Jim Dailey’s sister, Stephanie Dailey. In 1980 they m...

Episode 0154 | Aired 8/21/2019 Sophia Said was born and educated in Pakistan. At 20, she married Qayyim Said. The marriage was arranged by her parents. The first time she ever saw her groom was the night before their wedding. They moved to Utah in 1996 and she received her second Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Utah in 2007. Said, who had the highest GPA among economics major...

Episode 153 | Aired 8 - 14 - 19 Arkansas Native Jason Beck MD graduated UAMS in 1999. He did his residency in Diagnostic Radiology at the University of South Alabama in Mobile where he was Chief Resident during his final year. In 2004, he returned to Little Rock and in 2006 opened Arkansas Specialty Radiology, PLLC. In 2010, Beck and his sister started Onsite Imaging Solutions. Their business star...

Episode 0152 | Aired 8/7/2019 orn in Little Rock,Frank Fletcher was adopted by Frank and Aline Fletcher as a baby. He was raised on a farm in Tamo, AR., which at that time had a population of five. Frank went to grade school in Grady, where he was named to the All State basketball team in 8th and 9th grades. At 6-foot-4 when he was 14 years old, Frank went on to play for the Pine Bluff High School...

Lance Turner joined Arkansas Business as a reporter in 1999 and became online editor in 2000. In that role, he oversees all Web content for Arkansas Business Publishing Group of Little Rock, which produces websites, magazines and newspapers in Arkansas, including Arkansas Business, Little Rock Soirée, Little Rock Family, Arkansas Bride, Guest Guide to Greater Little Rock, Arkansas Next: A Guide to...

Not sure what episode to listen to? Kerry McCoy has sat down with some very interesting people. Listen to our Best Of Highlight Reel to hear guests Steve Landers, Rex Nelson, Arkansas First Lady Susan Hutchinson, Bob Robbins, Ann McCoy and Janet Carson.

People who love restaurants want to know the chefs and hear their stories. Listen to this highlight reel to get a taste of some of our notable chefs like Donnie Ferneau, Mark Abernathy, Don Dugan and the Bruno brothers.

Dancer Amy Bramlett Turner sat down with Kerry McCoy to share how Ballet has embraced diversity, how dance improves confidence through body acceptance, how somatic practice builds mind/body connection and how dance can be implemented across the curriculum.

Dr. Steve Cathey grew up “all over Arkansas,” spending time in Smackover, Whitehall, Fayetteville, Little Rock and graduated from Monticello High School while his father was the head basketball coach at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. Steve stayed in Monticello and graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Arkansas at Monticello. In 1989, he returned to Monticello, where he was ho...

Tech leader Charles Morgan sat down with Kerry McCoy to discuss his business legacy. Listen to learn how dreaming can open opportunities, the importance of a good training program and how forward thinking is an essential role in business.

Kerry sat down with local Jeopardy! contestant Josh Hill. Listen to learn how to apply and win on the popular game show Jeopardy, how to put an engineering degree to work for you and how furries can help the community and get paid.

Gary Lay sat down with Kerry McCoy to recall his story of surviving the 1965 Titan II Missile Crisis and moving on to become a successful "adman".

CEO Brian Marsh sits down with Kerry McCoy to share the services and opportunities within Goodwill Industries while giving us the history of Goodwill and how it grew in Arkansas.