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.

instinctual adventurer
from Sculpting the wild: Discover A Sculptor's Paradise in South Africa
descriptions of people
In choosing how we are in the world, we shape our experience of that world, our contribution to it. We shape our world, our inner world, our outer world, which is really the only one we’ll ever know. And to me, that’s the substance of the spiritual journey. That’s not an exasperating idea but an infinitely emboldening one.
from Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age by Krista Tippett
Modern spirituality
What do you consider your greatest achievement so far?

Building a family. Building is a political philosophy – a very noble act. We talk a lot about the virtue of building in Silicon Valley, and for most people, family formation is the deepest and most tangible way in which they’ll experience building something from nothing that outlasts themselves... See more
from Modern Meditations: Katherine Boyle
loving the process
Your decisions about allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life’s strategy.
from How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clay Christensen
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
In 1985, Nike held a 24-hour shoe design contest. Nike was struggling. Their stock dropped 50%. They had to lay off people. Adidas, Converse, and Reebok were all selling more shoes. So in a panicked attempt to find creative talent, Nike held a shoe design contest. The winner was a corporate architect named Tinker Hatfield. “Two days after the compe... See more
living a creative life
"I have learned that whenever I think "I don't have enough time to do that" what I usually mean is "I don't have enough energy" or "I am not actually interested in doing this."

What I need to do a better job of is not managing my time, but rather caring for myself and identifying my true interests. When I am well rested and working on something I a... See more
from 3-2-1: On saving money, controlling your anger, and what love looks like
loving the process
I think that one of the things, again, my son has been such a blessing to me over the past couple of years because I think that is an example of I almost missed him. I was so focused on solving him and preparing the path for him with his ADHD and his challenges there that I was exerting my efficacy on his life, and I almost didn’t know him. And he’... See more
from We Can Do Hard Things Ep 238
Life and
All of everything in us comes from somewhere else. And we get to take those elements, and I think I use the word in the book, re-present. We have this information, and we get it, and we get to mix it up and reform it and re-present it back to the world. And sometimes we re-present it back to the world in a way that no one’s seen it before. And it’
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from Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative by On Being

from Sculpting the wild: Discover A Sculptor's Paradise in South Africa

from Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age by Krista Tippett

from Modern Meditations: Katherine Boyle

from How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clay Christensen

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

from 3-2-1: On saving money, controlling your anger, and what love looks like

from We Can Do Hard Things Ep 238

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