Natalie Audelo

@natalieaudelo

designing social architecture and community experiences that build trust, generate creativity, and encourage authentic human connection. exploring the healing power of play, movement, music and other integrative practices.

loving the process
loving the process
A decade ago, I was only a couple of years into my venture career. I believed that growth and progress were synonymous – in an industry where scale was the ultimate target, platforms that achieved it were glorified. A decade later, I have learned that success is more nuanced, and we have to take accountability for the outcomes we encourage. New dom... See more
from Modern Meditations: Rebecca Kaden (Union Square Ventures) by Mario Gabriele
She is a maestro of self-determination, of writing her own story
from TIME's Person of the Year 2023
building my own language library
The more fear we have on the inside, the more our perception of the world is changed to a fearful, guarded expectancy. To the fearful person, this world is a terrifying place. To the angry person, this world is a chaos of frustration and vexation. To the guilty person, it is a world of temptation and sin, which they see everywhere. What we are hol
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from Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender a book by David R. Hawkins by David R. Hawkins
Imagination is our gift as a species to move purposefully towards what does not yet exist and walk willingly through the unknown to get there. It has a power to change what seems possible and so to shift what becomes possible. Moral imagination looks inward as much as it acts outward. It works with a long sense of time and opens its eyes to assumpt... See more
from Three Callings for Your Life and for Our Time | The On Being Project
loving the process
Letting go is not difficult—processing loss is.

from Simplify Simplify Simplify

in my (not so fun) feels

“I think the reason there’s such good juicy kitchen gossip, and so much connection happens in the kitchen, is because you are usually kind of doing something repetitive, and that releases something in your mind that creates a space that doesn’t just reside in the brain, but also is something that becomes part of the body. And how often do we do tha... See more

from Notes & Highlights for How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong

the art of gathering

“Reflection matters because it is continuous with practice. How you think about what you are doing affects how you do it, or whether you do it at all. It may direct your research, or your attitude to people who do things different, or indeed your whole life.”

from The Right Side of Thought - More To That by Lawrence Yeo

That labor amounts to constant self-promotion in the form of cheap trend-following, ever-changing posting strategies, and the nagging feeling that what you are really doing with your time is marketing, not art. Under the tyranny of algorithmic media distribution, artists, authors — anyone whose work concerns itself with what it means to be human — ... See more

from Modern Meditations: Rebecca Kaden (Union Square Ventures) by Mario Gabriele

from TIME's Person of the Year 2023

from Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender a book by David R. Hawkins by David R. Hawkins

from Three Callings for Your Life and for Our Time | The On Being Project

from Simplify Simplify Simplify

from Notes & Highlights for How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong

from The Right Side of Thought - More To That by Lawrence Yeo

from Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to. by Rebecca Jennings