Lisa Riehl

Corporate & Advancement Event Manager, Wife, Mom and loyal Servite, Rosary, CSUF, Chapman & TCU supporter. Work HARD & Be KIND!

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

Hi Karsci, You’re very welcome. Letters like this mean a lot. Not just to me and my team, but to the many individuals and companies who support mikeroweWORKS. Without their help, we couldn’t have assisted you, and I know the people who support my program appreciate hearing from people who have benefited from it.

I admire the fact that you changed direction when you realized college was not for you. Too many who come to that realization "stay the course," and while that always sounds like good advice, it often is not. Staying the course only makes sense if you're headed in the right direction. I'm glad you course corrected before you wound up in debt for a credential you don't need. I admire the fact that you went to Florida for a year, when you didn’t really want to. Success in life is not rooted in doing what you want to do - at least, not right away. I'm glad you had the good sense to follow the opportunity where it took you, and I’m glad it paid off. I’m not a betting man (at least, not in the traditional fashion), but Id wager you’re going to do great things with your work ethic.

Most of all, I love that you credited one of your teachers, Tom Stroot, and I love that Mr. Stroot had the good sense to direct you to mikeroweWORKS: https://t.co/CSGu1RA4wd.

This year, well award $10 million in scholarships to students like you, and teachers like Mr. Stroot are a big part of why we continue to grow. Please give him my regards, and my thanks. We need more teachers like him.

Finally, Im privileged to receive many letters like this, but until now, none has ever inspired me to write a specific commercial for our scholarship program. But your letter, along with the photo of you welding, has. I'm not a welder myself, but I know good work when I see it, and you clearly know what you're doing. The ad is called The Man Behind the Mask. It's currently running online in several states, in conjunction with our partnership with @BuildFreedomUS, where you can find thousands of opportunities, just like the one you chased down. I hope it inspires others to follow your example.
https://t.co/2MsnOIcI9i

Good luck, Karcsi, and thanks for checking in. Keep me posted.

[Imagination Library @dollyslibrary]

Our team, our local program partners, and every operational partner who helps make this program possible each month are heartbroken at the loss of our founder, Dolly Parton. (cont.)

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 AWESOME! Argentina President Javier Milei is being praised worldwide for filing a law to BLOCK politicians from getting paid if they allow the country's budget to fall into a deficit

"For the first time in our history, if politicians don't do their homework, they won't get paid. It's not the people who'll go unpaid — it's the politicians."

🔥🔥🔥

DO IT IN THE USA!

This is BASED, @JMilei! 🇺🇸🇦🇷

[Kirk Herbstreit @KirkHerbstreit]

Man just want to thank the @USMNT for the way they represented the our country throughout the World Cup!
Not just with your play but how you handled yourselves before-during-and after the matches. Know it didn’t end the way you’d hoped but that’s sports-important thing is YOU brought so much excitement to your country AND to your sport!
Thank you for this ride and taking people like me (know very little about the game) to look forward to each match and listening and learning along the way.
Keep your heads up lads-we appreciate all of you!

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

@GavinNewsom Before you tax the most monetarily successful man EVER who has created 2 of the most successful companies in American history, can you please explain how you have spent taxpayer dollars wisely in your own state?

Stop asking for more money from ANYONE until you spend it correctly

[Laura Ingraham @IngrahamAngle]

Put down the phones. Pick up the books.

Schools that are bringing back pen-and-paper learning and banning phones are seeing remarkable results.

Turns out kids learn better when they're reading, writing, and thinking—not scrolling.

[Meghan McCain @MeghanMcCain]

Europeans coming to our country for the World Cup and having the best time they’ve ever had and undoing decades of progressive propaganda in a week is *chefs kiss* incredible.

USA!!!! 🇺🇸 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

(Also how does Europe not have ranch dressing)

[Fox News @FoxNews]

More than 250 runners are crossing the country as part of Relay for America, carrying the U.S. flag to Washington, D.C., with the goal of arriving by July 4th. Each mile of the journey is dedicated to a veteran who served our nation.

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

I will pay the fines for any @MLB Christian player who wears a Bible verse on their uniform.
@MLB is ANTI-CHRISTIAN

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

6 states voted last night. I can tell you who won in South Dakota, Montana, and even New Jersey. But somehow, California has only counted HALF of its ballots. They’re saying it could take 10 DAYS to get any definitive results.

There is no modern Western country that runs its elections like California. France, the U.K., Australia, Germany, and even Colombia COUNT THEIR BALLOTS OVERNIGHT!

You don't have to believe in fraud to see that California has a problem. I mean, you totally could believe in fraud. Lots of fraud. Wow, those mail-in ballots take forever to come in! But you don't HAVE to. This is unacceptable.

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

When Spencer Pratt wins the Los Angeles mayoral race he gets to move into the mayor's mansion.

The thought of Karen Bass having to give up her home to him after she burned down his home is reason enough to vote for Spencer.

[Patricia Heaton @PatriciaHeaton]

I wasn’t happy when Clinton, Obama or Biden won, but I didn’t call them fascist/dangerous/threat to democracy. I didn’t hope someone would assassinate them. I went on with my life with gratitude. Friends on the left, please try this. Your life and our country will be better.

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

Rather than supporting the Waco community and Baylor alumni, the university restricted entry for all non-students at our event tonight forcing us to tell 4,500 ticket holders not to come. Oh and the Southern Baptist school approved an LGBTQ counter-programming event after a bunch of progressive students complained.

What gives, @Baylor?

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Thank you, @Gatorade, for removing artificial FD&C colors and switching to newly @US_FDA–approved plant-based dyes from fruits and vegetables. I urge every food company to follow your lead and join us to Make America Healthy Again.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

President Trump is SAVING college sports, and Nick Saban is all in 🔥⬇️

"I would just like to thank President Trump for having the foresight to know that there are things we need to do to change the future of college athletics... I'm especially proud to be a part of it."

[Servite Athletics @ServiteSports]

Meanwhile in alumni @ServiteTF news 👀

Max Thomas ‘22 blazes a sub-10 time in the 100m at the Florida Relays to post a PR & the World’s No. 2️⃣ time this season‼️

#foreverafriar #thatservitespeed

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Pope Leo XIV became only the second pope to carry the Cross throughout the entire Way of the Cross at Rome’s Colosseum on Good Friday.

Video: Vatican Media

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

https://t.co/JdKP4TmoTD

Last year, when Wells Fargo offered to support mikeroweWORKS in a meaningful way, I realized that something fundamental had changed. This was the first time a big company that didn’t directly employ skilled workers had offered to help us train the next generation of skilled workers. When I publicly thanked Wells Fargo for their generous support, I also expressed my hope that other banks and financial institutions might follow their example. Well, last week in DC, at the largest Infrastructure Summit ever convened, BlackRock pledged to invest $100 million to help close America’s widening skills gap – and mikeroweWORKS received a modest chunk of that investment.

It was a pretty big deal. I was invited along with dozens of CEOs, lots of press, several union leaders, God knows how many elected officials, three current cabinet members, and hundreds of other interested parties – all focused on the growing consensus that something must be done to reinvigorate the skilled trades on a national level. I was flattered to share my thoughts on stage with the CEO of Blackrock and gratified to see so much attention being focused on the same issue that led me to launch mikeroweWORKS eighteen years ago. This, from BlackRock’s press release.

“In the first phase, BlackRock will deploy $100 million in grant capital to nonprofit and workforce development partners across multiple states over the next five years, reaching 50,000 workers. BlackRock will work alongside federal, state, and local governments, labor organizations, companies, and nonprofits to strengthen effective skilled trades programs and deliver these opportunities at scale. The initiative will take a comprehensive approach — supporting pre-apprenticeship access, training completion and licensure — while embedding financial education and digital savings tools to help workers build durable economic security from their first paycheck through retirement. BlackRock will announce additional phases of Future Builders over the next 12 months.” https://t.co/NYNOAbNR64

This is the way forward. More companies offering more support to more people and programs that are already working to close America’s skills gap. @BlackRock predicts America’s new infrastructure – one based on AI, energy, connectivity, and yes, the construction of many data centers, will cost no less than $10 trillion to build – assuming we have the skilled labor to build it. At the moment, we do not. Not even close. The current shortage of electricians, plumbers, welders, and linemen, is already acute, and it’s about to become critical. Soon, it will become a matter of national security.

I understand there’s a lot of debate about whether or not we should even be going down this road, and a lot of fear and skepticism in the general public about pushing forward. Believe me, I get it. But if this summit was any indication, the AI genie is NOT going back into its bottle. No way. We’re in a race with China, like it or not, and the outcome of that race will impact every company, every corporation, and every citizen who relies on the American grid.

That’s why I’m glad to see companies like Wells Fargo and BlackRock crack open their checkbooks. Any big corporation that’s truly concerned about the widening skills gap should be supporting the people and programs that are already training and recruiting the next generation of skilled workers. Hundreds of excellent initiatives are underway all over the country, and many of them will become much more effective as a result of this investment. Good for BlackRock. Hopefully, other big companies will follow suit.

As for mikeroweWORKS, we’ll do what we always do with the money we receive from our supporters – we’ll expand our scholarship fund, but we’ll also allocate a portion to the severely undervalued pursuit of more and better storytelling in all media. At this point, it’s a very simple formula - the more money I spend telling the true stories of our scholarship recipients – real people who have prospered as the result of learning a skill that’s in demand - the more people enter the skilled trades. So far, we’ve assisted 3,500 people, and this year, we’re going to help a whole lot more.

PS. We’ve expanded our enrollment period for the next round of scholarships. Currently, we have $10 million set aside to help train the next generation of skilled workers. If you or someone you know is ready to enter the trades, the money is waiting. Go get some! Apply at https://t.co/v6mSZF2K7I

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

How could Californians see what’s happened to their state and say,

“Let’s vote for the guy who claims Newsom hasn’t made any ‘significant missteps’”?

California needs massive change, not another Newsom-like replacement.

[Jason Walls @walls_jason1]

I just applied to @ABCSharkTank.

3 days ago I was pulling wire in Kentucky.

Then @mcuban reposted my work, DM'd me, and personally introduced me to Shark Tank casting.

Today I submitted my application for Season 18.

Here's the wild part:

I'm not a tech founder. I'm a Master Electrician. IBEW Local 369. Zero coding background.

I built @EV_ChargeRight — a $12.99 tool that saves homeowners $3,000-$5,000 on unnecessary electrical panel upgrades before EV charger installs.

70% of EV owners don't need the upgrade they're being sold. The math proves it. NEC 220.82.

I built the entire product with @AnthropicAI's Claude. No dev team. No funding. Just a tradesman with a problem worth solving.

This week:
- 860K+ views on my story
- 16K likes
- 2.4K reposts
- Mark Cuban in my DMs

A week ago I was just an electrician with an idea and a laptop.

Now I'm applying to pitch in the Tank.

If you're in the trades and thinking about building something — do it. The barrier isn't technical skill.

It's believing you're allowed to try.