When a Woman Drives 75,000 Miles for the Planet and World Pulse Pays Attention

Something extraordinary landed in my world last week.

Sheena Katz, World Pulse's strategic partnerships leader with 17 years of experience elevating women's voices and building purpose-aligned collaborations across global media and social impact organizations, posted about my journey on the World Pulse Instagram. A woman who has moderated international panels on gender equity at the Cannes Film Festival took a moment to celebrate a woman who once drove a Tesla across America four times. I wept with gratitude. Rouge would have approved. Sheena's podcasts while we wait for mine to be published.

Here is the backstory Sheena was currently celebrating.

Between September and November 2025, I drove my red Tesla Model 3, Rouge, 15,000 miles across the United States. Four crossings. Alone, except for the 10 days I sling-shotted from East Coast to West Coast to East Coast again, out of 100. As a Climate Coach, founder of TRUST Climate Action Strategists, and Digital Empowerment Ambassador with World Pulse, I needed to prove something the data already knew: electric vehicles are not a coastal luxury or a Silicon Valley flex. They are viable, powerful, and necessary, in Iowa cornfields, in Texas heat, in the middle-of-nowhere Arizona on a sunny Sunday noon when a drunk driver ran a red light over a hill and totaled my car seven hours from the California finish line.

Rouge protected me. I walked away uninjured. The mission did not stop.

Eleven people bought EV's as a direct result of conversations I had on that journey. Eleven families. Eleven futures. Four crossings. One planet. This is what climate action looks like when it travels at highway speed.

And then I needed a new car, and trust became the whole story.

I am a pioneering woman cadet from the United States Air Force Academy, one of the first women ever admitted, where trust was not a soft skill. It was oxygen. It was the thing you breathed when everything else was stripped away. So when I found an identical Tesla Model 3 for sale by a West Point grad, 30,000 fewer miles, half price, we both already knew the currency we were trading in. TRUST. Two veterans of institutions that are built entirely on it, shaking hands across a transaction that required none of the usual negotiations because the foundation was already there. Her name is Scarlett, and she is currently somewhere between the mainland and Hawaii trying to figure out how a Tesla crosses the Pacific, which is honestly a metaphor for the entire climate movement and I trust we will solve it.

You can currently read the full story of the Plugged IN, Charged UP initiative, including the 13,287-mile EV road trip for people, peace, and planet, right now on World Pulse: worldpulse.org/story/plugged-in-charged-up-a-13287mile-ev-roadtrip-for-people-peace-and-planet-71735

That post Sheena shared is the opening act. Because very soon, my full conversation with World Pulse drops as Episode 18 of their podcast. Are you ready?

We go deep. We talk about what it actually feels like to drive across America four times carrying the weight of a climate crisis and a humorist's refusal to despair. We talk about EV advocacy from someone who is not a tech CEO or a policy wonk but a storytelling coach with 800-plus TEDx talks produced, a Charter President of WE Rotary eClub for International Peace, a facilitator for the Peace on Earth Game by 2030, a mom, a grandmother, and a great-grandmother who has enough skin in the future to power a mid-sized renewable energy grid. We talk about trust, and Rouge, and what comes after devastation. We talk about the drunk driver and the West Point grad and what it means when two strangers exchange keys on nothing but mutual honor.

I have been a Digital Empowerment Ambassador with World Pulse because I trust what they trust: that women's voices are not a sidebar to the climate conversation. We are the conversation. We are currently building the solutions, driving the miles, facilitating the games, coaching the leaders, and yes, occasionally crying into our tea about a totaled Tesla before buying a new one and getting back on the road.

This is climate coaching. This is what TRUST Climate Action Strategists was built to do. This is AI-era advocacy that centers human stories because the research is clear: data informs but story transforms.

Your invitation, with full gratitude:

If this story is currently calling to you, please follow @WorldPulse on Instagram. Find the post Sheena Katz shared. Read the full road trip story on World Pulse at the link above. Leave a comment telling them Episode 18 has your name on it. And if someone in your world is waiting for permission to believe the future is worth fighting for, please bring them along.

The road was long. The podcast is coming. The planet is currently, urgently, beautifully worth it.

Plugged IN. Charged UP.

Kat Haber

Founder, TRUST Climate Action Strategists | Climate Coach | AI and Climate Coaching Researcher | Storytelling Coach | 800+ TEDx Talks Produced | Charter President, WE Rotary eClub for International Peace | Facilitator, Peace on Earth Game by 2030 | Digital Empowerment Ambassador, World Pulse | Pioneering Woman Cadet, United States Air Force Academy | Founding TEDxWaikoloa in Hawaii