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.

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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• About 99% of the time, the right time is right now.

• No one is as impressed with your possessions as you are.

• Dont ever work for someone you dont want to become.

• Cultivate 12 people who love you, because they are worth more than 12 million people who like you.

• Dont keep making the same mistakes; try to make new mistakes.

• If you stop to listen
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from 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known by kk.org
good advice
I saw something wonderful recently about how creatives should never apologize for taking the space to create. How wonderfully, stupidly obvious is that? Whether it’s your work or your pleasure, creating grounds us, fills us, lets the most alive parts of ourselves enter into the world to further germinate and flourish.
from In Kind on Monday: Working in "Airplane Mode" (and Not Apologizing)
I think this is probably an experience that many, many, particularly women but probably others feel, is the sense of loss of who we essentially are because of the requirements of what we do. And so I think a lot of people were really funny, and I think a lot of people were really silly, and I think a lot of people were really playful.
from We Can Do Hard Things Ep 238
Women In Business
this. @writers
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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
When an industry fails to address the societal and structural factors that make this type of work harder, and rely on workers’ passion to power the whole industry through a snowballing crisis....in those cases, not even a strong union can protect the worker from the burnout built into the system. You go beyond burnout to demoralization, which is th... See more
from When Your Profession is On Fire
Burnout
“I think the reason there’s such good juicy kitchen gossip, and so much connection happens in the kitchen, is because you are usually kind of doing something repetitive, and that releases something in your mind that creates a space that doesn’t just reside in the brain, but also is something that becomes part of the body. And how often do we do tha... See more
from Notes & Highlights for How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong
the art of gathering
from Peter Watts: "We're not thinking machines, we're feeling machines that happen to think."

from 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known by kk.org

from In Kind on Monday: Working in "Airplane Mode" (and Not Apologizing)

from We Can Do Hard Things Ep 238

from Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

from When Your Profession is On Fire

from Notes & Highlights for How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong