CHILLICOTHE – Even at a young age she knew what she wanted to do.
“I had a very blessed and busy childhood,” recalls Kendra Scott. “I played a lot of sports and was heavily involved in 4-H and FFA, our small country church, and joined several other organizations. Of course, I wanted to be a jockey ( (until I got too tall) and a professional volleyball player. But realistically, I was interested in becoming a journalist of some sort.
“I always enjoyed reading,” she continued. “But I have come to criticize everything I read, from published books to soup can labels. and my business friends asked me for advice and so on.”
“I realized I needed proofreading and editing,” she summarized. “I think it’s an important and overlooked part of written presentations.
Today, Scott runs a Chillicothe-based business called iRedPen.
“I write marketing content for businesses. I edit copy for businesses and individuals and proofread the final copy of written material.”
Scott grew up in Marysville and graduated from Marysville High School in 1991 and received a BA in English from Georgetown College, Kentucky in 1995.
“I met my husband while interning at WKYT-TV in Lexington, Kentucky,” she said. We rented out the house, sold everything, and headed west. We lived in Montana, then moved to Colorado, where she worked at Beaver Creek Ski Resort for four years. When my son was 10 months old, I decided to move back to Ohio to get closer to my family. “
They moved to Chillicothe in 2009. Scott became a newspaper reporter and language arts instructor. But she said “I was fired as an instructor”. That made her launch her iRedPen in 2013.
“I turned my editing skills into a business,” she said.
Chris Gray, owner of HR Medic LLC in Chillicothe, is delighted.
“I started working with Kendra when I was working on my PhD,” said Gray. “I quickly learned that she was someone who cared deeply about the success of the project and the client. I had so much fun working with her that I am still partnering her in my current role at HR Medic.Kendra is a great writer, editor and partner .”
“When I’m doing one of these projects,” Scott replied. It’s fun. I work on projects as if they were my own and I want others to do the same, so it feels good to hone it.
“I have had many difficulties, but it is God’s grace that makes me who I am today,” she concluded. “He credits me with the skill set and passion to build something with the iRedPen that he would never have thought of himself. The iRedPen comes from the heart.”
Please log on to www.iRedPen.com for more information.
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