Shannon has her Masters degree in speech communication from Northeast Louisiana University. She has been the director of Prevention Services with LifeChoices Medical Clinic in Joplin for 8 years. Here, she uses her unique talents and insight to train presenters to go in to local schools to teach abstinence education through LifeChoices' sex education program, Virtuous Reality: Love Education^TM, as well as to consult with other program directors, nationwide.

Shannon co-hosts a write-in radio show titled 'House Calls' with her husband, Dr. Karl Wendt, a marriage and family therapist. They have been married for 25 years and have two perfect daughters, Katie 22, and Sammy 18. Karl and Shannon frequently speak for seminars, conferences, youth rallies and civic agencies on such topics as marriage, parenting, dating, STDs, love vs. infatuation, and stress.

Shannon is also an adjunct instructor in communication at Missouri Southern State University.