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.

“Great leadership has many different attributes, but it starts with knowledge of a particular pursuit, because without the knowledge and mastery of that particular pursuit, I don’t think you have the authority to convey it with conviction to others. It usually is associated with an obsession, because to be a great leader, you have to be obsessed by
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good leadership
A big problem with bubbles is the reflexive association between wealth and wisdom, so a bunch of crazy ideas are taken seriously because a temporarily rich person said it.
from A Few Laws of Getting Rich by Morgan Housel
On a cold Monday in December, 65 people were gathered for Reading Rhythms, an event that bills itself as “not a book club” but “a reading party.” The parties, which began in May, take place on rooftops, in parks and at bars. The premise is simple: Show up with a book, commit to vanquishing a chapter or two and chat with strangers about what you’ve ... See more
from It’s My Party and I’ll Read If I Want To by Molly Young
cool concepts and let's gather - ideas & concepts i love
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
It’s not quite love and it’s not quite community; it’s just this feeling that there are people, an abundance of people, who are in this together. Who are on your team.
from KEEGAN: The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
Through my work, I present all my dreams, my fears, my ego, my insecurity, and it takes a level of being OK with being “seen” like that to really create work that speaks to the human condition. I laugh thinking back on an example I can give — I have a dress from one of my first collections that has my nightmares printed on it from when I was a chil... See more
from Thebe Magugu - Brené Brown
living a creative life
Measuring from zero helps us keep perspective. I’ve often recommended a similar exercise, but in this version you make your friends disappear instead. You might know it already: when you’re with a loved one, imagine that they’re gone from your life and you’re not actually seeing them in the room with you, you’re just remembering what it was like wh... See more
from We Are All Surrounded by Immense Wealth
how contrast shapes experience
Write little phrases that will “open a door to a scene”: Often, we can’t see our entire project in its full form, but we can see little pieces of it. A curtain moving in the morning light, for example. A man sneaking around a house. Jotting down these little hints “open a door” for your future writer-self.
from Toni Morrison's Research Notes for Beloved
the art of writing and building my own language library
Back when I was feeling a imless and lost I used to read and reread something Cheryl Strayed wrote about writing: The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering abou... See more
from pacing by Ava
loving the process

from A Few Laws of Getting Rich by Morgan Housel

from It’s My Party and I’ll Read If I Want To by Molly Young

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

from KEEGAN: The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan

from Thebe Magugu - Brené Brown

from We Are All Surrounded by Immense Wealth

from Toni Morrison's Research Notes for Beloved

from pacing by Ava