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.

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
There are a lot of benefits to being good at that narration. Describe your “calling” convincingly and you've defined a new game that others want to watch and play. But it’s a catch-22: if you spend all your time constantly sketching (probably quickly outdated) pictures of your thinking on the bigger questions we’ve all been tasked with answering, y... See more
from callings by Molly Mielke
People exist on a spectrum between fast-twitch and slow-twitch thinking.

Fast-twitch people speak fast, work fast, and crave novelty. Socially, they're quick and witty. Throw a problem their way and they'll come up with 3–5 solutions in a matter of minutes. They're the people you want in the room when you're brainstorming an idea.

Slow-twitch people ... See more
building great teams
You only know someone well if you can correctly predict how they will react in stressful situations.
from A Few Things I’m Pretty Sure About by Collab Fund
Encounters with strangers can be a humbling reminder of the vastness of the world and of each other, the impossible-feeling truth that each one of us contains an entire universe of inner life and a singular perspective, that as a species we have an incredible capacity for kindness, cruelty, courage and creativity.
from The big idea: why we should spend more time talking to strangers by Sophie McBain
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
In the end, this quest for a moral billionaire forced me to confront my own beliefs about wealth, power, and the nature of goodness in a complex world. I finished the exercise with hope—not because I found a simple answer to the question of what it means to be both wealthy and virtuous, but because I have discovered that even among the most powerfu... See more
from Can the Truly Moral Billionaire Please Stand Up?
power structures and dynamics
When hiring, look for people with the right attitude. Skills can be taught. Attitude changes require a brain transplant.
from Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
building great work cultures
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from How to Activate your Community for Impact by David Spinks

from callings by Molly Mielke

from A Few Things I’m Pretty Sure About by Collab Fund

from The big idea: why we should spend more time talking to strangers by Sophie McBain

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

from Can the Truly Moral Billionaire Please Stand Up?

from Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

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