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.

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
Chouinard and his business partner, Tom Frost, made what would become a legendary decision to shift away from pitons. It foreshadowed many other decisions Chouinard would make over the next fifty years, each with a similar pattern: Come to grips with damage you’re doing, set bright lines about how you’ll shift your business to reduce that damage, t... See more
from How Patagonia Became The Most Reputable Brand In The United States by Doug Sundheim
good leadership
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
feelings run the world
What do you consider your greatest achievement so far?

Building a family. Building is a political philosophy – a very noble act. We talk a lot about the virtue of building in Silicon Valley, and for most people, family formation is the deepest and most tangible way in which they’ll experience building something from nothing that outlasts themselves... See more
from Modern Meditations: Katherine Boyle
loving the process
My being an artist is not a question of being able to make artwork. It is a question of my willingness to make something imperfect, or ugly, and how much resilience I have to face that reality repeatedly.
from Turns Out I'm Petty
living a creative life
Because all living things are connected on vibrational energy levels, our basic emotional state is picked up and reacted to by all life forms around us.
from Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender a book by David R. Hawkins by David R. Hawkins
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

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

from How Patagonia Became The Most Reputable Brand In The United States by Doug Sundheim

from No, you don't owe me a favor

from Modern Meditations: Katherine Boyle

from Turns Out I'm Petty

from Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender a book by David R. Hawkins by David R. Hawkins

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