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Kendrick Shope Lives Her Dream Helping Others Pursue Theirs

Written by The Bingham Group

Featured on NBC Chicago, in The Advocate, Modern Achiever, and other media outlets, Kendrick Shope is not only a highly successful business woman, but she is also a passionate mom and the creator of Authentic Selling.

Shope daily pursues her dream of helping other professionals accomplish their greatest career aspirations and realizes anything is possible if you “believe” and are willing to put in the hard work to make dreams become reality.

Kendrick was born and raised in Monroe County and graduated from Sweetwater High School in 1995. She then went to college to study Psychology at the University of Tennessee (UT). She graduated from UT in 1999, and in 2001 she moved to Atlanta and worked in lumber sales.

After being married only 13 months at age 27, Kendrick’s husband, Blake, suffered from multiple strokes. The doctors were unsure if he would make it through the night. He miraculously recovered after receiving an essential drug given within three hours of his stroke that reversed every side effect. For Kendrick, it was a life-changing moment. She was inspired to live every single moment to the fullest, because she realized no one is promised tomorrow. It was an “ah-ha” moment for her as she looked at her life, and said, “We aren’t promised we are going to live another day, and here I am in sales, and I don’t enjoy it.” She knew there had to be more to life, and she was motivated to go on a journey to discover her ultimate passion, but as the years passed, she still found herself in the same routine.

Fast forward seven years, and Kendrick had moved from Atlanta to Chicago where she worked as a pharmaceutical sales rep at a Fortune 500 Company. She had a daughter named, Halianna, and she recalls always telling her daughter she could be anything she wanted to be if she just “believed.” It was this moment she realized, she was telling her daughter she could be anything she wanted to if she just believed, but she was working a job she didn’t love and didn’t “believe” in herself. So, Kendrick went through Martha Beck Life Coach Training, to help her begin a path to achieve her career dreams. Beck is a well-known, best selling author and weekly contributor to The Oprah Magazine. Kendrick trained for six months, and is now a coach as well. A year later, she decided to quit her pharmaceutical sales job where she was one of the company’s top sales professionals to create her dream job. She wanted to get paid for doing a job she loved and cared about. Through a lot of hard work and determination, she has proven that it’s never too late to give up on your dreams and follow wherever they lead.

Kendrick states, “I want to help people follow their dreams, and help them realize you don’t have to be an icky, sleazy, slimy sales person to succeed in business. You can be authentic.” Shope assists professionals with how to have sales conversations, how to follow-up, how to start and run a business, what your web presence needs to look like, and a wealth of other topics.

Today, Kendrick hosts her own online TV Show, K TV, where she inspires thousands of people across the globe. Her desire is to help business leaders pursue and follow their dreams, just as she did. Kendrick now lives in in Bentonville, Arkansas with Blake and Halianna. She is an inspirational speaker and has spoken to companies such as Colgate, Ruby Tuesday, and Eli Lilly.

When her daughter looks at her now, she can honestly say, “Mommy’s job is to help other people pursue their dreams,” and she does it with passion.

To learn more about Kendrick Shope and Authentic Selling, visit: kendrickshope.com.


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