My Story

Personal Side Of Rhett

  • Married to my best friend Tracey, the most beautiful woman I know. I surprised her at our wedding by singing a song to her I wrote.
  • Father to Hendrix, Anna-Frances, and Dawson. They are all our favorite!
  • Raised in Henderson, North Carolina, and Greenville, South Carolina
  • Enjoy exploring waterfalls in the Carolinas
  • We love to travel. Some of our favorite vacation spots are Daytona Beach Shores, Pigeon Forge, northern Virginia, and the Western North Carolina mountains
  • Beaches are my wife’s favorite. Mountains are mine.
  • Dollywood is our favorite theme park. I enjoy riding The Wild Eagle and Thunderhead.
  • Love to read. There’s never enough time for all the books! I enjoy legal thrillers, motivational business books, and inspirational reading.
  • My wife and I look forward to March Madness every year.
  • Enjoy classic country, Broadway, and orchestra music
  • Enjoy singing with my wife. We’ve recorded three albums, one of them a Christmas album.
  • I wrote another song for my wife our second year of marriage called “Come, Dance with Me.” We recorded it on one of our albums.
  • All three of our children are talented musicians. We enjoy when all five of us can play and perform together.
  • Can't dance at all!
  • My parents were raised in Anderson and Spartanburg, South Carolina. They met at Furman University in Greenville.
  • I like good fried shrimp, Ribeye steak, pork BBQ, cheesecake, and chocolate cake
  • Can’t stand Brussels sprouts, beets, or liver!
  • Enjoy tubing, whitewater rafting, kayaking, and playing in mountain streams
  • Love to watch old Westerns

Professional Side Of Rhett

  • I am a Certified Wedding Officiant
  • An award-winning writer, editor, and ghostwriter
  • Own my own communication business, Hendrix Communications
  • I’ve written dozens of articles and inspirational readings for magazines and websites.
  • I’ve written more than one published book.
  • Inspirational Speaker
  • My greatest strengths fall into three categories: communicating, connecting, and thinking
  • Enjoy speaking, teaching, and training
  • Was an adjunct college professor for a couple of years
  • Am also involved in consulting work
  • An entrepreneur who enjoys working remotely in non-traditional work
  • Like to listen to podcasts and audiobooks to grow and develop
  • My top 5 natural strengths according to the CliftonStrengths: Intellection, Maximizer, Context, Relator, and Strategic

Passionate Side Of Rhett

  • I am passionate about my best friend and wife Tracey. She is an amazing person. And I’m passionate about our three children, who are all gifts!
  • I am passionate about communicating. I’m a bridge-builder, connecting ideas and people. For thirty years, I’ve developed my communication skills speaking, writing, editing, singing, teaching, and training.
  • I am passionate about taking great stories, thoughts, and principles, and relating them to listeners and readers.
  • I am passionate about matters related to faith, family, and our freedoms.
  • I am passionate about learning and thinking about noble ideas, truths, principles, and life-lessons.
  • I’m passionate about being a maximizer, striving to do the best with what we have, where we are.
  • I’m passionate about becoming successful and helping others to do the same.