Where Coffee Gets Spilled

What's one thing you have no idea if you could do, but you're not trying?

Hear Susie Moon share advice on doing the hard things in this clip from her episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

She changed jobs so often early in her career that people looked down on her for it. Every one of those jobs turned out to matter.

Susie Moon grew up the daughter of two entrepreneurs, putting up party tents and hanging awnings for her parents' manufacturing business as a kid. But she never joined the company herself. She worried that people would see her as a spoiled brat rather than someone who'd earned her place, and she quickly realized she hated suits and didn't fit into the manufacturing world anyway.

So, she built her own path instead, one job at a time. She started at the UW Memorial Union, making under ten dollars an hour, working a second job just to make ends meet, then moved through the hotel industry, a director of sales role at Noah's Ark, and two years at Epic, which she says built serious character and taught her to be resourceful.

Every one of those jobs added a skill she still uses today. Susie now runs her own business as a professional connector, built on the belief that everyone has a unique gift to share with the world, and that her job is helping them find the right people and rooms to share it in.

Pour a cup and listen to Susie spill her story in this week's episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

Making a change can have its benefits.

Hear John Stofflet share how his move from Seattle to Madison led to his connection to the community in this clip from his episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

Finding purpose doesn’t always mean keeping the spotlight on yourself.

Listen to John Stofflet share what changed when he started measuring his career by what he could do for others, in this clip from his episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

In 1988, someone else got the job he wanted. He says it was the best thing that happened to him.

John Stofflet was passed over for the main anchor position at WKOW in Madison, losing out to a candidate who later went on to Congress. He was in his late twenties and devastated, but instead of walking away from broadcasting, he started mailing audition tapes across the country. That rejection led to sixteen years at King TV in Seattle, assignments on all seven continents, and a one-on-one interview with a sitting president.

After sixteen years of nonstop travel, John realized what he missed most was a real connection to community. When the chance came to return to Madison as lead anchor, he took it.

Over the course of his career, he came to see the shift as going from "look at me" to "look at them," aiming the spotlight at the people and causes around him.

Pour a cup and listen to John spill his story in this week's episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

A neurosurgeon has one priority. An orthopedist has another. Somebody still has to call it.

Hear Angie Ingraham share what it takes to manage competing priorities in trauma care in this clip from her episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

Embracing change is good, if not hard.

Listen to Angie Ingraham share her takeaway in this clip from her episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

The person who helped shape the physician she became was assigned to her completely at random.

Healthcare was always in the family for Angie Ingraham. Her mother worked as an OR nurse her entire career, and her father was a high school psychologist. She thought she'd become a pediatrician herself. Instead, her first week of medical school paired her, entirely by chance, with a trauma surgeon, and she spent her early training listening for trauma calls overhead just so she could run down and watch him work.

Angie went on to become a trauma and critical care physician herself, work she found intense and rewarding. But when her own father was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor, she learned that even a family with medical training, financial stability and connections can still struggle to navigate the healthcare system. That experience is what led her to patient advocacy, a field she didn't even know existed until she and her father became clients of one themselves.

Her personal situation and the idea that kept getting louder led her to found True North Patient Advocates in 2025 to help other families navigate the same system that once left her searching for answers.

Pour a cup and listen to Angie spill her story in this week's episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

https://healthadvocatex.org/advocates/true-north/

Don’t settle for what you think gives you comfort.

Listen to Mindi Kessenich share how you might be missing out on all the gifts and opportunities you were given in this clip from her episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.

When there's struggle, there's opportunity too.

Watch Mindi Kessenich explain how she turns her hardest moments into a catapult in this clip from her episode of Where Coffee Gets Spilled with Erich George and Lindsay Mayer.