About Lilou Mace
Lilou Mace (born Aurelie Mace, on the 20th of August 1977) is a French-American author, prominent proponent of the “Law of Attraction” and "Living with an Operan Heart" and the co-founder of Law-of-Attraction-based Internet community, The 100-Day Reality Challenge www.CoCreatingOurReality.com. Her website describes her as an “Oprah-inspired 2.5-million-view YouTube phenomenon” www.LilouMace.com.
Using Internet social networking sites and tools, such as YouTube www.LilouMace.com, Twitter www.twitter.com/liloumace and Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/liloumace. Lilou has built an online following of thousands (she had 5,500 subscribers to her YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/liloumace on 20 September 2009).
Lilou believes that we can fulfil our potential and manifest our dreams by focusing our thoughts on what we want, as opposed to dwelling on what we do not want.
Her mission statement indicates that she aims, amongst other things, to “inspire, motivate and empower millions of people to pursue their dreams” and to “help spread joy, freedom and empowerment”.
In April 2009 she self-published I Lost My Job and I Liked It: 30-Day Law-of-Attraction Diary of a Dream Job Seeker.
Lilou’s Youtube videos (over 650 videos with over 2.5-million views by 20th of September 2009) document her participation in the 100-Day Reality Challenge, www.Cocreatingourreality.com described in more detail below, and also include interviews with popular self-improvement authors from all over the world.
Early Life and Studies
Lilou was born in Santa Barbara, California, to French parents, Jean-Yves Mace and Irene Martin. Moving back to France and celebrating her first birthday in a transatlantic flight, Lilou grew up primarily in France Nantes and Cholet) and in the United States Scottsdale, Arizona, until 1996 when her studies helped her fulfil her passion to travel, discover new cultures and gain the International experience she had been longing for.
During her four-year Bachelor degree in European Business Studies (1996-2000), Lilou studied in ESC La Rochelle and Oxford Brookes University, and wrote her final year dissertation on “How to create a strong brand online”, graduating in 2000 with honours. Her major in International Marketing led her to increase her Internet and marketing skills during a 14-month internship for Nortel Networks in Mainhead, UK and in Silicon Valley, California, US.
Between November 2000 and October 2006, Lilou resided in Florida, mainly in Fort Lauderdale, after which she moved to Chicago, where she went on to meet her role model Oprah Winfrey, start her own cable TV show, initially called “My Juicy Life” (and then “Live a Juicy Life”), living there until the end of July 2008.