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.

"You say 'amateur' as if it was a dirty word. 'Amateur' comes from the Latin word 'amare', which means to love. To do things for the love of it."
from 3-2-1: The beauty of being an amateur, how to respond to a mistake, and finding work that grips your soul
It’s so strange how we’re able to carry forward this mystery of personal identity even when our present selves are so different from our future selves and from our past selves most of all. I think a lot about this question of, what is a person? Am I the same person as my childhood self? Sure, we share the same body, but even that body is so differe... See more
from Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age by Maria Popova
To be a good delegator, first you have to be a systems thinker . Systems thinking consists of understanding how events, behaviors, tasks, problems etc. relate and how they can prevail and sustain over time.
from Issue 23: Delegating as a Chief of Staff by Clara Ma
good leadership
Here’s something I’m very thankful I was told while I was still in my 20s: that the point of all this “hard work” is to recognize the person it makes you, not what it “gets” you
loving the process
What you want is never a thing.
from What you want is never a thing by David Cain
what do i want?
Something that helps me dispel confusion or feelings of resistance in my body is listening to "The Pearl Dive," a 30-minute guided imagery journey created by Dr. Rosalind Watts. This meditation prompts me to dive deep into my body and away from my thoughts, uncovering buried emotions and desires that I have yet to shine light on. It amazes me that ... See more
from Walk and Talk/Close.city/The Pearl Dive
digital xanax
Alchemize the pickle. You will be relentlessly confronted with conundrums, situations, pickles, and dumpster fires for which you do not yet have the knowledge or skill set because you have not had to navigate it before.4 Take a moment to reflect on why, check whether your privilege has anything to do with it, then send a sweet, loving, and forgivin... See more
from Call me a homebody. by Izabella Zucker
loving the process and
Everything I’ve learned about life and love, I’ve learned through grief. Pregnant and widowed at 28 sideswiped the life I was building, the life I’d thought I’d have. What’s that saying: Make plans and watch God laugh? It’s from the old Yiddish adage “Mann Tracht, Un Gott Lacht,” meaning, Man plans and God laughs.
from Anne Gudger Tells Us
Answers rise or fall to the questions they meet. And it is a deep, deep truth in science as in life that at any given moment we are being shaped as much by the questions we're carrying as by the answers we have it in us to give. Those moments when a new question rises up in us, stops us in our tracks, those are pivot points. Those are moments when ... See more
from Krista Tippett: 3 practices for wisdom and wholeness by Krista Tippett

from 3-2-1: The beauty of being an amateur, how to respond to a mistake, and finding work that grips your soul

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

from Issue 23: Delegating as a Chief of Staff by Clara Ma

from What you want is never a thing by David Cain

from Walk and Talk/Close.city/The Pearl Dive

from Call me a homebody. by Izabella Zucker

from Anne Gudger Tells Us

from Krista Tippett: 3 practices for wisdom and wholeness by Krista Tippett