Sam Reeves is an inventor, professional motivator, and speaker. He has been speaking at civic clubs, Chambers of Commerce, and churches for 35 years. At the age of 19 he joined a reserve Air Wing of the United States Marine Corps, and served for 8 years. He has a vast array of experience including being in the first graduating class in construction management from Eastfield College in Dallas after his 35th birthday.
He was the youngest president of one of the largest horse riding clubs in the US, National Rules Committee chairman for the American Association of Sheriffs's Posses and Riding Clubs, and later vice-president of that organization. He is a natural born leader having supervised hundreds of men and women on construction projects in Texas and Arkansas, including the heating and air conditioning plant at DFW Airport and the Richland Junior College campus in Dallas. He opened and ran a cowboy college in 1975 and taught aspiring cowboys how to ride bulls and broncs using the mechanical bull, isokenetics, and sessions on the power of positive thinking. The program worked so well that an 8-time champion bull rider, Don Gay, frequented the program. world champion bareback rider and country singer, Chris LeDoux, utilized the horse machine for practice. He liked it so much, he wrote a song about it and even recorded it on one of his albums.
Sam has been referred to as the "quintessential entrepreneur."
He is into anything new and innovative. Sam invented the mechanical bull (a story within itself), and a variety of other products including a monopoly-type board game for rodeo fans called Hoolihan, cardiovascular fitness programs (originally intended for professional athletes, but was later adapted by him for business men and women), a variety of construction equipment mechincal racing armadillos, a board games called "Crudedog Scramble; Catch Osama", and The X Factor. .
For the past seventeen years he has operated a service company for the oil industry with The X Factor technology which he developed and markets as a highly effective method of locating oil or gas deposits for drilling. This method has the highest success rate in the world. All of these things have given him a wide world of experience.
He has been on the speaker's bureau for the Independent Petroleum Association of America, has published a paper on hydrocarbon geochemical studies with spectrographic microwave systems, and lectures throughout the industry. He has recently completed a study on the seriousness of the lack of oil and gas reserves left in Texas and the world.
His latest project includes an in-depth study of the water we cook with, drink, and bath in (after the insistence of his wife).
Time Life publications, Western Series Book, has him in the last volume called "The End and the Myth." Both the Smithsonian magazine, and the BBC have featured stories on him. Sam has been on national television in Japan, six times in the US (on Real People and PM Magazine), and three feature stories have been shown on the Bob Phillips 4-County Reporter (now 8-County) and many other media outlets. After entering the oil business in 1986 he drilled an oil well in Eastland and Stephens Counties, Texas, looking in an unexplored granite section of the Earth for new oil and gas. This was the deepest oil well ever drilled in Stephens Cty. Texas.
Sam is very upbeat, positive, and charismatic which makes him a highly effective communicator. He has five children ranging from 22 to 50, seven grandchildren ranging from 4 to 29 and one great grandson 17mths. Sam can speak with personal authority on all of his topics. He is powerful behind the microphone, and will bring lasting knowledge, motivation, and inspiration to each of his topics. Read more about Sam here:
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