“I’ve described coaching with Erica as creative/career therapy. For so many creatives, work and expression take up MASSIVE space in our mental anguish. Average therapists, psychiatrists, and life coaches can't actually engage with that in an authentic way. Our coaching sessions feel like we’re in a collaboration—a studio of two. It makes everything suddenly feel lighter, clearer, livelier...”

Julie, Designer @ BUCK


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For reinvention as a creative process:
Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans

For reconnecting with your creative identity:
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

For conversations that honor complexity:
On Being with Krista Tippett

Site Full Video: Powers of Ten™ (1977)

Coaching, like Powers of Ten, is an adventure in perspective. This short film by Charles and Ray Eames zooms out by powers of ten, shifting our view from a picnic in Chicago to the outer edges of the cosmos—and then back in, all the way to a single proton. It’s a perfect metaphor for the coaching process: expanding and contracting our lens, discovering new patterns, and seeing the familiar in new ways.