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Coleville, CA - After retiring from Chevron in 2018, Petroleum Engineer Scot Buell continues to consult with the oil and gas industry. Buell's four-decade-long tenure at Chevron saw him traversing the United States—Montana, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, and California—before scaling international heights. His multifaceted role encompassed running drilling rigs, meticulously planning oil wells, reservoir simulation, reserve estimating and managing field operations involving over a thousand wells. The most remarkable aspects of Buell's narrative is his forward-thinking stance on climate change and sustainable energy. Acknowledging the undeniable positive impact petroleum has had on our modern world, the reality is that climate change is real. He also highlights the nuanced challenges of identifying truly green solutions, such as the environmental impact of lithium extraction for electric vehicle batteries. ?Climate change is an existential challenge that demands immediate and sustained action,? Buell emphasizes. ?While petroleum engineering has been my life's work, I advocate for a balanced approach that incorporates renewable energy sources.? Before retiring, Buell dedicated himself to maintaining a balanced and healthy lifestyle, encapsulated by his passion for athletics. He has set an ambitious 28 component goal to run marathons, cycle, ski and climb the highest point on every continent. He has completed 27 out of the 28 components, Everest being the remaining incomplete component. ?Everyone should have pragmatic approach to diet and exercise,? Buell explains. For more information about Scot Buell, please visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/rsbuell

Oakville, ON – Yasmin Bleik is a certified Life Transition Coach helping men, women, and teens reinvent themselves with passion and confidence. Yasmine is certified by the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) as Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) accredited by the International Coaching Federation, ICF. As a coach, she guides and assists individuals facing any type of life transition to help them acquire self-assurance and gain new insight and fresh perspective. By asking her clients the right questions she helps them come up with strategies that are customized and actionable so that they can work through barriers, limiting beliefs, and gain resilience. As such, her clients progress into more grounded, emotionally intelligent individuals with improved habits who and live life on their own terms. Whether positive or negative, life transitions cause us to leave behind the familiar and embrace change. While change is hard, it can lead us to find our own answers and that's what Yasmin's coaching is focused on. Emphasizing how her clients take the driver's seat, Yasmin makes it clear she is not giving them the answers or telling them what to do, she wants them to and reach their own answers and discover who they are at their very core. Her approach is grounded and practical, so we feel lighter and more empowered to move forward with a way that is most suitable to who we are. She encourages us to embrace our values because it helps to give us clarity on how to make the right life decisions and navigate big changes in our lives. Yasmin's passion is to encourage us to actualize our innate abilities to overcome obstacles and create a life of success and fulfillment. For more information, visit www.startwithyaz.com

Milwaukee, WI - Chelsie Hartline is the founder and president of May.Rah.Kee Coaching a name she chose because its meaning was so aligned with her own thinking. Meraki (pronounced May-Rah-Kee) is a phrase from Greek origin that means to put your heart and soul into something you love, to immerse yourself in your work. And that is exactly what Chelsie embodies. Her passion is helping others to discover their true meaning and propose in their lives and business while embracing the true essence of Meraki and similarly to pour their soul into everything they do. Chelsie Hartline is a transformation leadership coach with 17 years of experience, recognized for her no-​nonsense approach and fierce determination. She brings an unrestrained style to her coaching work. Chelsie empowers leaders and ​entrepreneurs to tap into their inner resources, conquer limiting beliefs, and ​create profound, lasting change. Her coaching focuses on inner shifts and ​personal transformation, helping clients dismantle thoughts and behavioral ​patterns that have stopped them from achieving their goals and living more fulfilling lives. Chelsie also works with individuals who have faced adversity so they can gain the divine lessons and insight from God of who they are meant to be in the world and then help them integrate that into their work and life. She lets them know it is OK to be scared and reminds them that life is more than just about surviving. Chelsie does most of her coaching online via Zoom and is willing to travel to client sites to conduct group workshops as well as 1:1 leadership coaching. For more information on Chelsie's life and work, visit her website: https://mayrahkeecoaching.com/