Up in Your Business with Kerry McCoy

Ep 270 | Aired 11/12/2021 Today on Up in Your Business I have the pleasure of sitting down with one of the founders of Wendy’s restaurants in Arkansas; the prolific Little Rock restaurateur, Mr. Jim Keet, along with his son, Jake Keet. Jim has accomplished much in his career but, when asked what he is most proud of, he quickly says working with his sons in their iconic eateries: Tatziki’s Mediterr...

Ep 269 | Aired 11/5/2021 Did you know November is Military Month? We at Flag and Banner know it, and chose to celebrate on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy by playing an earlier interview with one of Arkansas’s favorite sons, the highly decorated, four-star General Wesley Clark. I will always be grateful to General Clark when, in 2017, he lent his star power to my new radio show. In KABF’s non...

Ep 268 | Aired 10/29/2021 We are having a Mayoral Roundtable today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy. Our super editor (and local celeb within his own right), Tom Wood, has put together a show with three previous guests, Past Mayor Mark Stodola, current Mayor Frank Scott, and former Arkansas Representative Warwick Sabin, who ran against Scott for mayor in the last election. Listen to get ins...

Ep 267 | Aired 10/22/2021 You could call today’s show a “second coming” because this will be the second time Reverend Dr. Chris Keller has appeared on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy. Dr. Keller, III, is an Episcopal priest and theologian who, through his ministry and life, has blended scholarly pursuits with pop culture knowledge into an innovative leadership style. I liken him to EF Hutton...

Ep 266 | Aired 10/15/2021 Today, we tried something different and recorded Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy‘s interview with Mr. Roy Dudley, founder of Roy Dudley Estate Sales, from the Dreamland Ballroom. Mr. Dudley is one of those fortunate people that found his passion early in life. He was a mere boy in elementary school when he was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and began treasure hunt...

Ep 265 | Aired 10/8/2021 Today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy is my interview with Mr. Aaron Lubin, President of Executive Recruiters Agency, who has been consulting Fortune 500 and small businesses, alike, for over 40 years. Since the disrupter, Covid-19, it seems everyone is redefining their life and work plan. Before the term “life coach” was even invented, Aaron Lubin Consultants was...

Ep 264 | Aired 10/1/2021 Today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy is my interview with retired Honorable Judge, Mr. Robert L. Brown, a stalwart of Arkansas law and politics. Though you may not readily know his name, 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...

Ep 263 | Aired 9/24/2021 Join me at today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy to hear my interview with Mr. Gary Lay, founder of GWL Advertising, SeeSpotRun Productions, and GWL Digital, all headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. You know his good works every time you see Steve Landers on TV. Yes, Gary is the man behind the man, in those commercials and others. At first, you might think, “oh...

Ep 262 | Aired 09/17/2021 Where has this ‘guy,’ Mr. Jim Guy Tucker, been? Today on Up In Your Business we’ll find out what he has been up to and more. In the autobiography 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, acroba...

Ep 261 | Aired 9/10/2021 Today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy, we revisit a past interview with respect and remembrance of all those whose lives changed forever on 9/11. We all remember where we were when, 20 years ago, two jet planes were hi-jacked and flown into the Twin Towers in New York City. My guest today does too. Reverend Dr. Stuart Hoke emerged from the New York subway in the fi...

Ep 260 | Aired 9/3/2021 My guest today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy is none other than the honorable Mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas, Mr. Frank Scott. His life demonstrates what I’ve seen time and time again on my show, and that is: “Successful people work hard, believe in a higher power, and are action oriented.” Mayor Scott has had a very diverse career. He has been an executive at Fir...

Ep 259 | Aired 8/27/2021 My guest today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy is Mr. Ray Rodgers: a boxer, coach, cutman, administrator, three-time Hall of Fame recipient and tireless community leader. If he wasn’t known as the world’s best cut man in the boxing industry, he’d probably be known as a standup comedian, because he is funny. A “cutman” is the magic man in the corner of the boxing ri...

Ep 258 | Aired 8/20/2021 Today’s interview on Up in Your Business with Kerry McCoy is a replay with Executive Artistic Director Mr. William Trice, savior of the Arkansas Repertory Theatre in Little Rock, Arkansas who, at the time of the interview, was making big plans for a fall/winter season comeback, with no knowledge that a world-wide pandemic was looming just ahead. Many of you may remember th...

Ep 257 | Aired 8/13/2021 My two guests today on Up in Your Business not only share their lives, but also their creativity and love of music. Classically trained vocalist, Ms. Stephanie Smittle and her partner, Stephen Koch, founder and host of the syndicated radio show Arkansongs, take a deep dive into Arkansas music history, from the excavation of ancient instruments to stories about legends like...

Ep 255 | Aired 8/6/2021 My guest today on Up in Your Business is Abbi Siler of Abbi’s Tea and Things. After a decade-long career in digital marketing and advertising, Abbi took her late father’s advice and, in February of 2018, opened her “little tea shop” and fulfilled a long-time dream of working for herself. With an open heart, this family run operation serves up a delicious variety of teas, tr...

Ep 254 | Aired 7/23/2021 Today’s Up In Your Business With Kerry McCoy is a rerun from our early days in broadcasting, featuring my artist-friend and North Little Rock native, Mr. Kevin Kresse. Kevin’s success, of late, has been making big news. In recent years he was commissioned to sculpt the bust of Helena, Arkansas’s homeboy: singer and drummer Levon Helm. And, before that, Kresse created a sev...

Ep 252 | Aired 7/16/2021 This week on Up In Your Business With Kerry McCoy is Part Two of my telling interview with Ms. Susan McDougal, known as The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk (also the title of her book), during Kenneth Starr’s 1994, media-circus trial of President Clinton and the Whitewater Investigation. Before the interview, I read her book and must shamefully confess that, even though I lived th...

Ep 252 | Aired 7/9/2021 Today’s Up In Your Business With Kerry McCoy show is epic! So epic that it had to be edited into a 2-part series. My guest is Ms. Susan McDougal who, in 1994, was the center of attention in Kenneth Starr’s media-frenzied trial of President Clinton and the Whitewater investigation. Ms. McDougal’s story is a real-life Shakespearean tragedy; an eye opener into the abuse of jud...

Ep 251 | Aired 6/30/2021 News Flash…next week, we’re moving to Saturdays at 11:00 AM on 101.1 the Answer. But our regularly scheduled program at 2:00 PM, Friday on KABF will stay the same. Tonight will be our last show during the 6:00 PM time slot. The staff of Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy have pulled all the stops out for our last show in this time slot, by combining two interviews of Ark...

Ep 250 | Aired 06/23/2021 You’ll recognize the name of my guest today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy because he is a long-time activist, businessman, and political figure in Arkansas; Mr. Sheffield Nelson. Born in the Arkansas Delta, Mr. Nelson studied and worked hard to overcome his geographic and socioeconomic station in life and became the president of ARKLA Gas by the age of 32. After...

Ep 249 | Aired 6/16/2021 This week on Up in Your Business I had the pleasure of interviewing (to quote from the Dos Equis ad campaign) “the most interesting man in the world,” Mr. Bob Traylor. If you are from North Little Rock, you will know exactly who and what I am talking about. My friend, Bob, is a 94-year-old man who sired 7 children, held the office of Arkansas state representative in 1971,...

Ep 248 | Aired 6/9/2021 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 does...

Ep 247 | Aired 6/2/2021 This week, you will not only recognize the name of my guest on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy but also the voice of film actor, writer, and director, Joey Lauren Adams. Lucky for us, this North Little Rock native was back in “dogtown,” social-distancing from her usual California residence, when we caught up with her. Joey has had an illustrious career in film. She has...

Ep 245 | Aired 5/26/2021 Today’s guest on Up In Your Business is Ms. Cecelia Wilson, whom I first met when she called and asked to interview me! During our initial phone conversation, Cecelia described herself as a WWII history buff. She said that my parents' story in the fall edition of FlagandBanner.com’s BRAVE Magazine had whetted her appetite to learn more about my family and specifically my f...

Ep 244 | Aired 5/19/2021 This week on Up in Your Business with Kerry McCoy is a conversation with two Giants in Arkansas publishing: Mr. Walter Hussman and Mr. Alan Leveritt. Walter Hussman’s skills as an extraordinary newspaperman are legendary. He won the infamous newspaper war between the Gazette (a morning paper) and the Democrat (his afternoon paper) that lasted through the 1970’s. Then, afte...