Lilou Mace
Lilou Mace (born August 20, 1977) is a French-American author, webTV host, video blogger, and interviewer.
Biography
Mace was born in Santa Barbara, California, to French parents, Jean-Yves Macé and Irène Martin. Moving back to France, Mace grew up primarily in Nantes and Cholet. She also spent part of her youth in Scottsdale, Arizona. During her four-year Bachelor degree in European Business Studies (1996-2000), Mace studied at ESC La Rochelle and Oxford Brookes University and wrote her final year dissertation called How to create a strong brand online, graduating in 2000 with honours. She did a major in International Marketing and completed a 14-month internship for Nortel Networks in Mainhead, UK and in Silicon Valley.
Early career
Between November 2000 and October 2006, Mace resided in Florida, mainly in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and moved to Chicago in October 2006, where she lived until the end of July 2008. Between January 2000 and June 2008, Mace was self-employed, creating online branding, website design and online marketing for the hospitality industry.
Juicy Living Tour
Shortly after moving to Chicago, on 9 November 2006, Mace met Oprah Winfrey during an episode of the The Oprah Winfrey Show on the theme of “Dream Jobs”. This experience inspired her to start interviewing and a few months later, with no television or broadcasting background, Mace went on to produce and host a cable TV show on CAN TV called My Juicy Life. This show aimed at inspiring people to fully live their purpose and passions in life, and featured authors such as John Gray, Sonia Choquette, and Karyn Calabrese. Ever since, she has been interviewing and video-blogging on YouTube. This quickly became an online television show called the Juicy Living Tour, broadcast on youtube and supported via donations.
The Juicy Living Tour is now called Lilou Mace TV. Mace travels the word and interviews people that share their life story, lessons and advices to live a fulfilled life. Mace has over 3000 videos and interviews online in english, french, korean, italian, spanish, japanese. In France Mace's show is called La Télé de Lilou
Author
In July 2008, Mace was offered a position in London as Internet Marketing Director for a luxury hotel sales-and-marketing company based in the United Kingdom. She moved back to Europe to take up this position, and only seven months later, on 16 February 2009, lost her job. The event proved to be life-changing. It inspired her to write her first book I Lost My Job and I Liked It: 30-Day Law-of-Attraction Diary of a Dream Job Seeker. Mace announced the publication of her book at the 2009 London Book Fair, where she printed the first copies on the Espresso Book Machine.
In Fall 2011, Mace's new book I Had No Money and I Liked it was published by her publishing company Juicy Living Publishing and at the end of October 2012, her book was launched in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Quebec by Tredaniel Editions.
Interviews
Over the years, Mace has interviewed hundreds of authors, speakers and scientists from all over the world about the art of creating a happy, healthy and fulfilling life. She posts these interviews on Lilou Mace TV website and YouTube channel which has 30-million video views.[1] Some of her guests include Wayne Dyer, Jack Canfield, Carl Johan Calleman, Marianne Williamson, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Eben Alexander, Pierre Rabhi and Sandra Ingerman. Mace offers all her interviews for free and is supported by donations.
Bibliography
- I Lost My Job and I Liked It: 30-Day Law-of-Attraction Diary of a Dream Job Seeker, Juicy Living Publishing, 2009, ISBN 0956254608
- I Had No Money and I Liked It: the Abundant Journey of an Open Heart, Juicy Living Publishing, 2011, ISBN 0956254667
References
External links
- Lilou Mace official website
- Lilou's TEDtalk at TEDx Alsace (English subtitles)
- John Hagelin interviewed by Lilou Mace
- La Télé de Lilou, the French WebTV by Lilou Macé
- Spanish WebTV by Lilou Macé
- Italian WebTV by Lilou Macé