Up in Your Business with Kerry McCoy

Kerry McCoy sits down with Garbo Watson Hearne, who owns Hearne Fine Art and Pyramid Art, Books & Custom Framing/Hearne Fine Art, located in the historic Dunbar neighborhood in Little Rock, Arkansas. Listen to the podcast to learn: Stages of the Art Business, How a doctor and nurse filled a void in the Little Rock art market, How nursing strategies can aid in starting a business

Tim Zimmerman of First Choice Drug Testing sits down with Kerry McCoy to discuss the importance of Gross Margin, what an ESOP is and how it works, Professions that require drug testing and how SCORE can help you start a business

Christine Littlejohn, CEO of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, joins Kerry McCoy on Up In Your Business. Littlejohn shares how to adjust your business budget to avoid bankruptcy, the importance of teamwork and the role music plays in academic achievement. Learn more at https://www.flagandbanner.com/radio-show/christina-littlejohn-125.asp.

Ep. 124 Community Bakery owner Joe Fox discusses the bakery business including how perishable inventory dictates hours of operation, different types of employee owned business models, the benefits of Empowerment Zones for business, and how remote solar panels can feed your business or home electricity as well as the benefits of changing over to solar energy for businesses in particular. Learn more...

Ep 0123 | 1/18/2019 Kerry McCoy speaks with Hoops Green, who joined the Harlem Globetrotters in 2017 becoming only the 15th woman to ever don the red, white and blue uniform in the team’s 93-year history. The now 5-foot-9 guard first started pursuing basketball at age 4. She was introduced to the sport by her older brother who has served as one of her greatest mentors. “I always looked up to my bi...

| Ep. 122 | 1 - 11 - 19 The Rev. Susan Sims Smith is the Executive Director of the Interfaith Center. Smith was a Jungian oriented psychotherapist for 25 years, and has been an Episcopal priest since 1999. She founded Seedwork, a project to teach people how to listen to wisdom from their dreams and from meditation. She spearheaded the foundation of the Arkansas House of Prayer, an interfaith cente...

Ep 118 | 12/14/18 Eric Herget was born in Paragould and attended Catholic High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Eric has a bachelor's degree in marketing from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Eric's father may have taught him the most important lesson of business. "You have to give to the community," Herget said. You have to work hard for the community you live in." That philosophy led h...

Episode 115 | 11/30/18 Harold Joyner is the president of the 43 year old company, Fence World. Their website boasts, “We love our community and enjoy giving back whenever we can.” Most recently, Fence World provided fence rebuilding services to the Central Arkansas Boys and Girls Club. Each year, they donate over a mile of temporary fencing product to the Little Rock Marathon. Most recently, they...

Pat Matthews and Tracee Gentry Matthews share their passion for painting on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy. Episode 112 was recorded on November 2, 2018.

Ep 112 | November 2, 2018 Clarke Tucker is a 7th generation Arkansan, business attorney, husband, and father of two. A lifelong member deeply rooted in our community, Clarke has dedicated his career to advancing Central Arkansas, serving as a State Representative since 2014 while working with non-profits and charities to make Little Rock Metro Area a better home for our families. Public service ha...

Ep 108 | October 5, 2018 Kerry McCoy sits down with P. Allen Smith on Up In Your Business Paul Allen Smith Jr., the oldest of four children, was born on March 12, 1960, in Little Rock, Arkansas. He grew up in McMinnville, Tennessee, in the Cumberland Mountains, where his father’s family had farmed for several generations and also operated an ornamental plant business. Smith calls himself a fourth-...

Ep 0107 | 9/28/18 Ryan Harris, originally from St. Louis, Mo., graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Marketing and Human Resources from Washington University. He took a job as a financial adviser at Equity Financial Services selling insurance. After two years, he realized music was his passion and went to work for New Music Circle and then Sheldon Arts Foundation, both i...

Josh Hill is a networking engineer and recent MBA graduate. He resides in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he has been active in the Central Arkansas Furs Association since its inception in 2005. His alter ego "Bucktown Tiger" is well known among "furry convention" goers. He is a lyricist, keyboardist, and comedian who specializes in furry-themed hip-hop songs, voice overs, and freestyles, as lead sho...

Ep 105 | September 14, 2018 Steve Landers was born in Benton on September 23, 1953 and began selling (newspapers) at 5 years old. He got his first car sales job in 1970, graduated from Benton High school in 1971 (after attending summer school) and married in 1972. He went in with his father and began his own car dealership later that year. By the early 90’s, Landers Auto Group included three separ...

Ep 104 Legendary Arkansas DJ Bob Robbins discuss his long history on the airwaves. Robbins has been a fixture of Arkansas radio since 1967, when he began working for KAAY in Little Rock and in 1979 moved to KSSN 96 FM. Today he hosts the morning show on the WOLF 105.1 “Home of country legends” where he aptly fits. In 2013, he was named Broadcast Personality of the Year by the Country Music Associa...

Ep 103 | 8/31/2018 Michele Towne has worked in several sales jobs including office equipment and medical sales and advertising sales. Prompted by the magazine RSVP Memphis, in September 2001, she began Inviting Arkansas. It was the first Little Rock publication that covered the city’s social and philanthropic life. She then sold ads for the magazine and assembled a staff of industry people that we...

Ep 102 | 8/24/18 Creighton Ralls, of Little Rock, Arkansas, graduated from Walton College of Business, UofA Fayetteville. His first job was at Ray Winder Field. He has held a variety of jobs including waiting tables, taking white water photos, starting multiple businesses and working in a storage freezer before settling into his present career at The Pyramid Building in downtown Little Rock locate...

Ep 101 | August 17, 2018 Dr. Steve Cathey joins Kerry to discuss the topic of brain surgery. Listen to hear if he will donate his brain to science, how an aneurysm foiled a perfect surgery, and his prediction on the cure for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

Ep 0057 | 10/13/17 Chelsea Wakefield, PhD, LCSW is a Jungian oriented psychotherapist, couples therapist, dream worker, workshop and retreat leader who works with individuals, couples and groups. She has spent twenty five years facilitating people in moving beyond the wounds of the past, accessing their archetypal potential and living more vibrant and meaningful lives. Chelsea draws from a depth o...

Roy Dudley, Recorded Live from the Dreamland Ballroom | Ep 0097 | 7-20-18 Kerry talks with Roy Dudley live from the Dreamland Ballroom. Roy Dudley has been in the antiques business his entire life. As a child, growing up in Northwest Arkansas, he accompanied his parents to auctions, and he started selling some of his finds while still in elementary school. Over the years he has expanded the busine...

Ep 0099 | 8-3-2018 Kerry talks with Connie Fails who made Hillary Clinton’s first Gubernatorial inaugural gown that is now on permanent display in Arkansas' historic Old State House. Twelve years later, Bill Clinton was elected president and Connie designed Mrs. Clinton’s inaugural pants suit. Mrs. Clinton also wore several other Connie Fails designs for the inaugural ball and other festivities th...

Ep 0098 | 7-27-2018 Kerry speaks with Jim Dailey who serves as the Tourism Director for the State of Arkansas. A Little Rock native, Dailey graduated from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and served for more than 20 years as an elected official, 14 of those as mayor of Little Rock from 1993 to 2006. He worked to expand the Statehouse Convention Center, build Verizon Arena and create the...

Rev. Dr. Stuart Hoke was in NY near ground zero on 911, hear him talk about the moments after and how it changed his life for the better.

Ep 0094 | 6/29/18

Up in Your Business is a weekly radio show and podcast with Kerry McCoy, owner of FlagandBanner.com. Kerry interviews business owners and other professional leaders who share their story of ambition, entrepreneurship, and luck. It airs as a live radio show every Friday and as a podcast available for download. Guests inspire listeners with their insights and life experiences. Join Kerry for this pe...