Dallas/Fort Worth businesswoman Kendra Burnett defies an array of odds en route to starting Platinum Tax, LLC

DALLAS — As it pertains to broadening one’s horizon and maximizing one’s potential, Kendra Burnett offers a rather unique analogy on such.

Heck, if you listen to her long enough, chances are you’d come away with a newfound disposition on life.

“I firmly believe that we should live like we are writing our obituary,” Burnett, 42, told Making Headline News this week. “Be the person that you want everyone to talk about at your funeral. I want to be phenomenal. I want to be able to encourage others to be phenomenal.”

Having come from what he describes as “very humble beginnings” or the “West Dallas projects,” an economically-challenged housing community from where mother was once evicted, Burnett has gone to great lengths in recent years to create a rather comfortable, wholesome living environment for her and her family.

To her credit, she’s managed to do so, courtesy of her continuous rise in this ever-so-competitive entrepreneurship industry.

A native of Dallas who was raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina before returning back to her native establishment, Burnett is owner and chief executive officer of Platinum Tax, LLC.

Located at 600 East John Carpenter Freeway in Irving, Texas, Suite 268 — which is roughly 25 minutes from downtown Dallas — Platinum Tax specialists are widely known for being well-versed in all recent federal and state tax laws to ensure optimal financial benefits during income tax time and all year round, according to a spokesperson at www.platinumtaxllc.com.

In addition, Burnett, who’s widely known also as an immigration specialist for her company that was established in 2009, offers a full range of tax services that stretches throughout as many as 25 states.

“I have several businesses, but my heart and soul goes into my tax business,” Burnett said. “It has been my ethics that have sustained me all these years to build my clientele.”

Burnett has managed to build a solid rapport with immigrants, which has benefited Platinum Tax mightily and has given way to it having assumed a much different business-oriented landscape than other tax preparation institutions.

“I recently started an immigration service that allows me help immigrants with the filing of forms for various situations,” Burnett explained. “This is my way of helping and educating people of their rights here in this country. Immigrants are a very important part of the U. S. economy. (We) Americans need to be very careful how we treat them.  I recently joined the Latin American Immigration Association to ensure that I stay grounded in helping families stay together.”

In adopting the mindset of a progressive, thriving businesswoman, Burnett credits the influential impact, perseverance and the solid foundation orchestrated by her mother.

“I had never seen my mother cry or complain,” Burnett said. “She just made things happen. She raised her own 10 children, three of my father’s family members (that he left with my mom) and several other children in the community. I never knew we were poor, I always thought we were very well off. I learned to not be embarrassed by not having lights or water when it got cut off. We just cooked on the grill or the fireplace.”

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Interesting enough, that she had entered motherhood at the tender age of 14 didn’t merely prevent her from setting lofty ambitions and making her long-awaited dream as an entrepreneur a reality.

“I was a teen age mother and just decided that I can still be great,” Burnett said. “I went on to college right after high school. I’m now a mother of five children. One is going to school to be a pilot, two have started their own business, and two are still in school.”

As if that isn’t enough inspiration, Burnett’s success as an entrepreneur has afforded her the golden opportunities to travel to several U. S. states and even abroad, most notably to Nigeria for her business’ “Healing for the Sole” campaign, during which she and her constituents had given away more than 700 pairs of shoes to four different villages.

“I bought shoes from Nordstrom Rack, Off Broadway Shoes, Ross and Marshall’s,” Burnett recalled. “I used my own money to fund this trip and I paid for plane tickets for two other people to accompany me. I spent well over $10,000. After reaching out to local news outlets and several talk shows, to no avail, I decided that I had to use my own money.  When ask why I was giving them shoes, I simply replied, ‘Because I love you.’ I was never afraid in Nigeria, even though I was told to be fearful everyone. My plans are to go to Haiti, Cuba and Kenya.”

By and large, her valiant contributions as a successful businesswoman and to society practically sums up why as it pertains to broadening one’s horizon and maximizing one’s potential, Burnett has become a mastermind, of sorts, when offering a rather unique analogy on such.

“I get to change people’s lives,” Burnett said. “I encourage all my clients. When they leave my office, they feel like the sky is the limit. The immigration service allows me to touch more lives and also gives my clients easier access to me all year long.”

Spoken like a true, progressive entrepreneur whom, to her credit, has proven time and again that she’s capable of defying the odds — all while figuratively writing her obituary in the process.

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