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.

I’ve concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn’t dollars but the individual people whose lives I’ve touched. I think that’s the way it will work for us all. Don’t worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people. This is my final recommendation: T
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from How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clay Christensen
redefining success and
She’s modeling radical self-acceptance on the world’s largest stage, giving the audience a space to revisit their own joy or pain, once dismissed or forgotten.
from TIME's Person of the Year 2023
the transformative power of music
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
Most of the time, bad habits are simply a way of dealing with stress and boredom.
from How to Break a Bad Habit and Replace It With a Good One by James Clear
loving the process
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
Letting go is not difficult—processing loss is.

from Simplify Simplify Simplify

in my (not so fun) feels

“I’m just thinking that ... nobody goes for a walk without there being something that supports that walk outside of ourselves. And that maybe we have a false idea that the able-bodied person is somehow radically self-sufficient.”

from The Myth of Self-Reliance - The Paris Review by Jenny Odell

Inherently, we could never judge someone’s taste on a single choice. Every person embodies 100s of choices, and we incorporate all of this information in understanding the person. In the times when the choices all work together to clarify the sensibility, this is known as congruence .

Without congruence, there cannot be good taste. (And a lot of bad... See more

from On Taste and Congruence

on taste

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

from How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clay Christensen

from TIME's Person of the Year 2023

from Polyfuturism—One World, Many Futures by Theo Priestley

from How to Break a Bad Habit and Replace It With a Good One by James Clear

from When Your Profession is On Fire

from Simplify Simplify Simplify

from The Myth of Self-Reliance - The Paris Review by Jenny Odell

from On Taste and Congruence