John J. Goehle

John Goehle has spent his career at an unlikely intersection. As a CPA, he's spent decades helping ambulatory surgery centers stay solvent, compliant, and honest — work that produced the professional guides on ASC governance and accreditation that sit on a lot of administrators' shelves. For about twenty of those same years, he quietly filled pulpits as a lay pastor, mostly without his business colleagues ever knowing.

He'll tell you he never planned any of it. He meant to be a veterinarian. What he learned instead — looking back down the road, the only direction any of this makes sense — is that the wrong turns were the path. The Tug is his first book written for everyone, not just people who run surgery centers: a warm, funny, confessional memoir about the pull we all feel toward the lives we're meant to live. He writes from Spencerport, New York, outnumbered by dogs.