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.

Knowing where to go and what to do is the currency that, in the modern aspiration economy, makes curators more important than influencers. They guide their audience through culture by putting forward a selection of images, references, codes, product releases, or memes. Curation gives even mundane objects value by connecting them with a point of vie... See more
from Move Over Influencers, Here Come Curators by andjelicaaa.substack.com
redefining success and nat's work/life mood board
Things like music, books, art, family, friends, the inner life, etc. will increasingly play a larger role in quality of life (and hence progress) than gadgets and devices.

Over the next decade, the epicenter for meaningful progress will be the private lives of individuals and small communities. It will be driven by their wisdom, their core values, a... See more
building a new world
Transitions, down moments, and rest have never been my strengths. I think if I had been more forgiving and attentive to what’s quietest, I might have been less reckless with myself and others when I was young.
from Rachel DeWoskin Tells Us
Awareness needs constant refreshing
from Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative by On Being
I define a leader as anyone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and who has the courage to develop that potential.
from Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. by Brene Brown
good leadership
21 best ideas in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay on Self Reliance (via justin murphy)
Most people do not trust their own beliefs. The essence of genius is simply to trust yourself—to infer that whatever seems most true in your heart is most true in reality—and for everybody else, too, despite whatever they may claim.
There is hardly anything more painful
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Infrastructure might be built by hands but culture is built by tongues. The person who changes the cultural conversation is someone who is able to identify truth and describe it so others can not only understand but participate in the story as a conscious being themselves.
how language shapes culture
Before you build a second brain, you must feel things in your gut. Without this connection to your innermost self, your note-taking system will become a digital junkyard. You’ll capture cool ideas, tweets and articles. You may even build a fancy knowledge graph in Roam. But if you don’t have gut feelings about what’s worth keeping, you’ll conf
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from Before building a second brain, build a connection with your gut. by Daniel Kazandjian
gut feeling
"I frequently worry that being productive is the surest way to lull ourselves into a trance of passivity and busyness the greatest distraction from living, as we coast through our lives day after day, showing up for our obligations but being absent from our selves, mistaking the doing for the being." — Maria Popova
loving the process

from Move Over Influencers, Here Come Curators by andjelicaaa.substack.com

from Rachel DeWoskin Tells Us

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

from Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. by Brene Brown

from Before building a second brain, build a connection with your gut. by Daniel Kazandjian