Up in Your Business with Kerry McCoy

Ep 296 | Aired 5/13/2022 My guest today on Up In Your Business is known by all: Arkansas’s retired Governor Mike Beebe. Because of social distancing, this show was recorded as a telephone interview but, if I hadn’t told you, you wouldn’t know. Governor Beebe’s charm, intelligence, and likability (that made him our state’s most popular governor) came across as if we were sitting across the table fr...

Ep 295 | Aired 5/6/2022 My guest today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy is Paula Dempsey, founder and owner of Dempsey Bakery. This unique bakery, located in downtown Little Rock, is the only gluten, soy, and nut free bakery within a 500-mile radius. 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,...

Ep 294 | Aired 4/29/2022 Today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy I had the pleasure of talking (and guffawing!) with Mr. Jacob Keith Watson, a Broadway performer who is back in his home state of Arkansas to star in the Repertory Theatre’s production of Into the Woods by Steven Sondheim. Ticket information can be found at TheRep.org. Jacob, playing the kindhearted Baker, will sing his way int...

Ep 293 | Aired 4/22/2022 Today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy, our talented team has melded my past interviews of two ladies that have helped shape the fashion industry of Central Arkansas: Ms. Anita Davis, founder of the Esse Purse Museum, and Ms. Connie Fails, the fashion designer, boutique owner, and manager of the Clinton Museum store. In her interview, Connie tells the story of how s...

Ep 292 | Aired 4/15/2022 Many of us think of restaurateurs as people who love to cook and, sometimes, people who don’t love school. But my guest today on Up in Your Business is quite the contraire. He is the highly educated, well-read owner of Community Bakery in Little Rock, Arkansas, Mr. Joe Fox. Most people start a bakery to share their recipes and commune with others. But Mr. Fox started a bak...

Ep 291 | Aired 4/8/2022 Today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy I have a man’s conversation with Mr. Cole Rodgers, founder of The School of Man. Through his own experiences of admiring wrongly-stoic, masculine and confusing male role models, substance abuse, skewed career goals, and too many one-night stands, Cole hit rock bottom, so to speak. He felt empty. This is when Cole went soul searc...

Ep 290 | Aired 4/1/2022 Today’s Up In Your Business With Kerry McCoy is a rerun from our early days in broadcasting. My guest is Mr. Rex Nelson, one of the most high-profile writers and speakers in the state of Arkansas. Rex knows a little bit about everything. He is a sportswriter, journalist, author, presidential appointee and one of Arkansas’s most prolific wordsmiths. He describes himself as “...

Ep 289 | Aired 03/25/2022 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's demeanor. She is brilliant. She is also a classically trained pianist who believes i...

Ep 287 | Aired 03/11/2022 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 cen...

Ep 286 | Aired 3/4/2022 Today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy I sit down for a conversation with a power couple that has deep roots in Arkansas: the 2019 Farm Family of the Year, Jamie Anderson and his wife Elizabeth Burns Anderson. There are not many businesses that last past the second generation, and certainly not the third. But Anderson Farms, a fish hatchery, and Farmers Bank and Trus...

Ep 285 | Aired 2/25/2022 Today’s Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy is a compilation of three interesting and artistic African Americans, living and working in the Little Rock metropolis. They are Mr. John Cain, long time manager of KABF radio station; Ms. Garbo Hearne, a nurse turned professional art curator; and Mr. Chris James, an inspiring poet who is bringing a voice to the voiceless. All t...

Ep 283 | Aired 2/11/2022 My guest today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy is the renowned trumpeter, musician and performer, Mr. Rodney Block. If you live in Little Rock, or close by, then chances are you may have had the pleasure of hearing this gifted musician blow his horn, all while slipping in some of his encouraging and uplifting words about humanity and compassion for all peoples. Thi...

Ep 282 | Aired 2/4/2022 My guest today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy is the well-known radio voice and host of Swingin’ Down The Lane, Dr. David Miller. Though David’s show is very successful and syndicated in over 40 markets and two countries, his career didn’t start in radio. David grew up in New Jersey, loving the music of the big band era. But that is as far as he thought his love wo...

Ep 281 | Aired 1/2/2022 Today’s Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy is a compilation of previous interviews. You will hear informative excerpts from Dr. Amy Beard, Dr. Jason Beck, and Dr. Henri Roca, all specialists in functional and integrative medicine. You may be asking yourself, what is functional medicine? Functional medicine is a movement towards focusing on identifying and addressing the r...

Ep 280 | Aired 1/21/2022 My guests today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy is the health and fitness guru Jean Paul Francoeur, owner and operator of JP Fitness and Recovery in Little Rock, Arkansas. With 30+ years in the fitness business, JP (as he is casually known) is a certified personal trainer, licensed massage therapist, and now a certified Neufit therapist and trainer. Listen to this...

Ep 280 | Aired 1/21/2022 My guests today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy is the health and fitness guru Jean Paul Francoeur, owner and operator of JP Fitness and Recovery in Little Rock, Arkansas. With 30+ years in the fitness business, JP (as he is casually known) is a certified personal trainer, licensed massage therapist, and now a certified Neufit therapist and trainer. Listen to this...

Ep 279 | Aired 01/14/2022 My guests today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy are Bridget Shinn and her daughter Hilary Downey, who have been in the national spotlight for their successful weight loss program. Their stories are those of countless other women: Mom, Bridget, calls herself a “chronic fad dieter,” while daughter, Hilary, found herself overweight and tired after her first pregnancy...

Ep 278 | Aired 1/7/2022 Colonel Angela Ochoa is the Commander, 19th Airlift Wing, Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas. As the installation commander, Col. Ochoa leads the "Home of Herk Nation." She works in concert with the 314th Airlift Wing (AETC), 189th Airlift Wing (ANG), 913th Airlift Wing (AFRC), and 29th Weapons Squadron (ACC) in all aspects of C-130 training. Additionally, Col. Ochoa is r...

Ep 277 | Aired 12/31/2021 It’s been another great year of listening and learning from my guests on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy. When the show began in 2016, I had no idea how much I would learn from my interviewees. It has been an experience full of gratitude and inspiration, which has brought me to the theme of today’s show. Looking back through 2021’s shows, my team and I found a common...

Ep 276 | Aired 12/24/2021 My guest today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy is the owner of one of the oldest family businesses in Arkansas: Justin Wittenberg of Ruebel Funeral Home, which was founded in 1901 on the corner of 6th and Main Streets in Little Rock. It wasn’t until 1953 when Justin’s grandfather, George Wittenberg (who was hired on as a secretary), started the Wittenberg’s on the...

Ep 275 | 12/17/2021 My guest today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy is the recognizable retired meteorologist, artist, musician, and songwriter, Mr. Ned Perme. In this interview, we talk about the events that lured Ned from the beaches of Mobile, Alabama, to the city of Little Rock, where he stayed. For 34 years, this KATV personality came into our home to report the weather. As a trained p...

Ep 274 | Aired 12/10/2021 With the boom in Zoom meetings comes the over-critical camera view of oneself. This, in turn, has created a boom in the beauty, cosmetology, and plastic surgery business. So, my clever staff at Up In Your Business decided to replay my interview with Dr. Kris Shewmake, founder and plastic surgeon at Shewmake Plastic Surgery and Skin Retreat. In this show, we talk about She...

Ep 273 | Aired 12/4/2021 My guest today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy is Little Rock restaurant royalty, Mr. Louis Petit. Chef Petit’s Arkansas folklore began in 1975, when Jacque and Suzanne Treton decided to bring their European cuisine to Little Rock. Their restaurant was aptly, and now famously, called Jacque and Suzanne’s on the top floor of the First Commercial Bank Building in dow...

Ep 272 | Aired 11/26/2021 Happy Turkey Week! For some, it’s a lot of work to get the house ready, grocery shop and cook. But when the day arrives and everyone is together in a spirit of gratitude, if for nothing else, being born in the safety and security of the good ole USA makes it all seem worth it. Working hard in the spirit of gratitude is exactly what today’s guests on Up in Your Business ar...

Ep 271 | Aired 11/19/2021 It was pure happenstance that I met today’s Up in Your Business guest. Earlier this year, during my interview with Perry Smith (the new owner of the Minute Man Hamburger franchise) I met his business partner: USAF retired, Brigadier General John Michel. I found him interesting, so I invited him back for a one on one conversation that you will hear today. What makes Michel...