For the record: I, too,
am mid-spiral…

For the record: I, too, am mid-spiral…

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career pivots (and counting)

career pivots (and counting)

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times i've finished The Artist's Way

times i've finished

The Artist's Way

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times i've considered an MFA (probably)

times i've considered an MFA (probably)

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cringe mountains, climbed

cringe mountains, climbed

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times i've had it figured out

times i've had

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ABOUT ERICA BECH (THEY/THEM)

ABOUT ERICA BECH (THEY/THEM)

I've spent over a decade leading creative work across brand and product — at Cash App, Nike, Instagram, and others. I know what it feels like to be the person in the room holding the vision. To do genuinely good work and wonder if it's the work you're supposed to be doing. To outgrow something you also worked really hard for.I didn't come to coaching from the outside of this world. I came from the middle of it.


I started coaching because I kept having conversations — in studios, on Slack, over coffee after a shoot — with brilliant people who were quietly questioning everything. And I realized: I didn't want to refer them somewhere else. I wanted to be the person they could say it to.


I trained in executive coaching through the Berkeley Haas Executive Coaching Institute and am working toward full ICF certification. I work with my own coach and therapist— because I think you should only take someone into territory you're willing to go yourself.


A few things that show up in the work: Inspired by chance operations, I use tools like tarot and Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies, to encourage a release of gripping control and encourage awareness. I love a writing prompt. I believe play is a legitimate methodology and that going deep doesn't have to feel heavy.


I'm also building Skypunch — a project for creative renewal rooted in art, landscape, and getting genuinely lost on purpose. It's in dialogue with the coaching. Everything I do tends to be.


If you're mid-spiral— not lost, but in the middle of something real— this is the practice I built for that.


I've spent over a decade leading creative work across brand and product — at Cash App, Nike, Instagram, and others. I know what it feels like to be the person in the room holding the vision. To do genuinely good work and wonder if it's the work you're supposed to be doing. To outgrow something you also worked really hard for.I didn't come to coaching from the outside of this world. I came from the middle of it.


I started coaching because I kept having conversations — in studios, on Slack, over coffee after a shoot — with brilliant people who were quietly questioning everything. And I realized: I didn't want to refer them somewhere else. I wanted to be the person they could say it to.


I trained in executive coaching through the Berkeley Haas Executive Coaching Institute and am working toward full ICF certification. I work with my own coach and therapist— because I think you should only take someone into territory you're willing to go yourself.


A few things that show up in the work: Inspired by chance operations, I use tools like tarot and Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies, to encourage a release of gripping control and encourage awareness. I love a writing prompt. I believe play is a legitimate methodology and that going deep doesn't have to feel heavy.


I'm also building Skypunch — a project for creative renewal rooted in art, landscape, and getting genuinely lost on purpose. It's in dialogue with the coaching. Everything I do tends to be.


If you're mid-spiral— not lost, but in the middle of something real— this is the practice I built for that.


When I'm not coaching, you can find me poring over a book of poetry, deep in art history research of some obscure kind, or scouting my next Skypunch retreat location.

Nascent Spiral is a crawlspace¹ for inquiry² and chance operations³ in service of creative becoming⁴ and beginning again⁵ (and again)(…)⁶



  1. crawlspace / a habitable in-between; neither basement nor foundation; low ceilings on purpose; you don't stand up straight here; see also: threshold; a playfort

  2. inquiry / not research; not problem-solving; the practice of wanting the question as much as the answer; not knowing as method; to let it live in you awhile

  3. chance operations / the art of creative interference; a roll of the dice; play as a legitimate method; the work that happens when you stop being the only one in charge

  4. creative becoming / ongoing; non-linear; already in progress before you named it; fill in the blank: i am ____

  5. beginning again / see also: Shoshin (初心): A Zen term meaning “beginner’s mind,” emphasizing an attitude of eagerness and lack of preconceptions

  6. (and again)(...) / the return is the practice; beginning is always happening; every version a prototype; every prototype a beginning

Nascent Spiral is a crawlspace¹ for inquiry² and chance operations³ in service of creative becoming⁴ and beginning again⁵ (and again)(…)⁶



  1. crawlspace / a habitable in-between; neither basement nor foundation; low ceilings on purpose; you don't stand up straight here; see also: threshold; a playfort

  2. inquiry / not research; not problem-solving; the practice of wanting the question as much as the answer; not knowing as method; to let it live in you awhile

  3. chance operations / the art of creative interference; a roll of the dice; play as a legitimate method; the work that happens when you stop being the only one in charge

  4. creative becoming / ongoing; non-linear; already in progress before you named it; fill in the blank: i am ____

  5. beginning again / see also: Shoshin (初心): A Zen term meaning “beginner’s mind,” emphasizing an attitude of eagerness and lack of preconceptions

  6. (and again)(...) / the return is the practice; beginning is always happening; every version a prototype; every prototype a beginning

Nascent Spiral is a crawlspace¹ for inquiry² and chance operations³ in service of creative becoming⁴ and beginning again⁵ (and again)(…)⁶



  1. crawlspace / a habitable in-between; neither basement nor foundation; low ceilings on purpose; you don't stand up straight here; see also: threshold; a playfort

  2. inquiry / not research; not problem-solving; the practice of wanting the question as much as the answer; not knowing as method; to let it live in you awhile

  3. chance operations / the art of creative interference; a roll of the dice; play as a legitimate method; the work that happens when you stop being the only one in charge

  4. creative becoming / ongoing; non-linear; already in progress before you named it; fill in the blank: i am ____

  5. beginning again / see also: Shoshin (初心): A Zen term meaning “beginner’s mind,” emphasizing an attitude of eagerness and lack of preconceptions

  6. (and again)(...) / the return is the practice; beginning is always happening; every version a prototype; every prototype a beginning