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.

What might shift if we treated marketing as a creative practice itself? If we practiced promotion as an invitation into rather than a pushing onto ?
from Baila turns one, part 2.
reframes i love
Keith Haring // "Touching people’s lives in a positive way is as close as I can get to an idea of religion. Belief in one’s self is only a mirror of belief in other people and every person."
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things i believe to be true
THIS.
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” The critic and novelist Namwali Serpell told me that the quotation appeals to her in this moment, even though Žižek’s translation is slightly unfaithful to the original. The phrase “now is the time of monsters,” Serpell said, “allows us to think about the... See more
from The Terrible Twenties? The Assholocene? What to Call Our Chaotic Era by Kyle Chayka
Women are in the midst of a revolutionary reckoning with our ambitions. We’re not resigning en masse—because who can afford to quit her job in this economy?!—but we are trying to figure out a new set of goals and guidance for our professional lives. Thanks to long-simmering inequality and stubborn sexism, clarified by the pain of the pandemic, our ... See more
from What Comes After Ambition? by elle magazine
redefining success
A crush is a powerful little vial of that pure feeling—the longing, the push and pull. In his poem “The More Loving One,” W. H. Auden compared unrequited love to looking up at the stars, observing their beauty while knowing full well they “do not give a damn.” But he wasn’t mad about it; he saw that that’s how it should be, and anyway, he was more ... See more
from A Crush Can Teach You a Lot About Yourself by Faith Hill
There is no room for diverse futures in the boardroom when all they’re concerned with is hitting the next quarter’s KPIs.
from Polyfuturism—One World, Many Futures by Theo Priestley
Why would rational and intelligent people want to contort their lives like a hyper-kinetic yoga instructor jacked up on an all-day energy drink?

Surely, it has something to do with our obsession with doing, over just being, and the endless pursuit of excitement, which we mistake for happiness. Add to this our collective fear that we will run out of... See more
from Simply This: Living an Uncomplicated Life
in my (not so fun) feels
A world in which artists think like entrepreneurs, he writes in the Atlantic, is one where “You’re a musician and a photographer and a poet; a storyteller and a dancer and a designer ... which means that you haven’t got time for your 10,000 hours in any of your chosen media. But technique or expertise is not the point. The point is versatility. Lik... See more
from Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to. by Rebecca Jennings
Generosity is not a loan to repay or a debt to settle. It's a gift to appreciate. Yes, you can reciprocate a favor by paying it back. But the best way to honor an act of kindness is by paying it forward.
from No, you don't owe me a favor

from Baila turns one, part 2.

from The Terrible Twenties? The Assholocene? What to Call Our Chaotic Era by Kyle Chayka

from What Comes After Ambition? by elle magazine

from A Crush Can Teach You a Lot About Yourself by Faith Hill

from Polyfuturism—One World, Many Futures by Theo Priestley

from Simply This: Living an Uncomplicated Life

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

from No, you don't owe me a favor