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.

I think of as each of us having built up an intangible asset over the previous chapters of our lives, a distributed reservoir of credibility that is held in trust by your friends, mentors, and former colleagues. Your task is now to convert that intangible asset into a tangible asset
from Letter to a friend who may start a new investment platform by Graham Duncan
We’ve reached what Tocqueville described: downright egotism. It’s the ideological wall I find impossible to scale: I don’t know how to make you care about other people.
from The Dark Heart of Individualism
New humanism is the philosophy of creative writing. It is a philosophy of disciplined individualism, of crafted authenticity.
from Reader
Nothing looks the way I thought it would look. Some of it has been more delightful than I expected, much of it has been more heartbreaking than I ever planned for — or thought I could survive. Yet here I am, living out the story that I am, at best, co-creating in collaboration with mysterious and invisible forces. It has been, at every turn, intere... See more
from LETTERS FROM LOVE — With Special Guest Pico Iyer!
loving the process
Impatience is an argument with reality - Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin and patience
It’s helpful to think in terms of: it’s only play. We’re here to play. We’re here to have fun. And to use the feedback of, you know, sometimes failure is the thing you need to know to get to where you’re going. So if you try to solve a problem 10 ways and they all fail, you can either decide I’m a failure or you can decide, okay, I’m now 10 method
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from Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative by On Being
"Big wins tend to be accompanied by some combination of bigger decisions, more uncertainty, and greater risk.

If you want to play at a higher level, you need to be comfortable with greater swings of highs and lows: mentally, emotionally, financially.

You can avoid the swings, but you might be forced to play at a lower level."
from 3-2-1: Two rules for life, the power of reputation, and the peace of wild things
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living a creative life
Stories are incredibly powerful in moving members to engage in impact initiatives. Centering impact stories on the community members who made them possible also feels far less self-aggrandizing than focusing on your company’s efforts.
from How to Activate your Community for Impact by David Spinks
community activation x social impact

from Letter to a friend who may start a new investment platform by Graham Duncan

from The Dark Heart of Individualism

from Reader

from LETTERS FROM LOVE — With Special Guest Pico Iyer!

from Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative by On Being

from 3-2-1: Two rules for life, the power of reputation, and the peace of wild things

from How to Activate your Community for Impact by David Spinks