Wendi attended Louisiana State University in Shreveport and majored in accounting. She landed her first job in radio. After leaving the radio job she moved to Dallas and become a poster girl for Miller Beer. Two years later KIIS-FM in Los Angeles hired her to work the late night radio shift. A radio station in Japan hired her to send them nightly radio shows featuring romantic songs. She became so popular in radio that she even hosted her own nationally syndicated show Hitline USA. After working a year in a weekend job on the side for MTV, she was offered the job full-time, which she turned down. In 1997 (until 2001) she held the job as co-announcer of the morning show for country music station KZLA in Los Angeles.