Lily Aspen (@lily.aspen) is a successful influencer from Los Angeles. She is also the creator of her own Aspen Method - an original course for transformational mentors at the intersection of psychology, coaching, neurobiology and esotericism. &ldquo;My discovery in 2023 was that you don&rsquo;t have to give up any part of your personality, you can just have them become friends with each other,&rdquo; says Lily, boldly breaking stereotypes, also in her photo shoot for our magazine.

Lily, you are actively promoting the Aspen Method course. Please tell us about it.
I have spent ten years in therapy and over five years in coaching. Aspen Method is a product at the intersection of psychology, coaching, neurobiology and esotericism. Any human injury is associated with blocked energy. During the course, I teach you how to find these blocks and work through them using a mix of techniques. This is how you can solve a problem quickly and achieve long-term results. Clients of the first season graduates have already confirmed with numerous reviews that the method works.
What is the most interesting and most challenging thing about being a mentor?
The most interesting thing is to observe someone people's transformation and see how human potential is revealed. This is always a beautiful and individual process, because each person is unique, like a snowflake.
The most difficult thing is to adapt to someone else&rsquo;s speed and give the person time. Because the same process may take me one day, but fpr another person - several years.

You inspire thousands of girls, tell us about what you study on the course, and most importantly - how does one join it?
During the course, we learn to find emotional blocks - that same blocked energy - using various techniques: mentoring questions, coaching methods, diagnostics when working with the field and using the Akashic Chronicles.
The Aspen Method is a synthesis of my personal experience. I combined psychology, coaching and esotericism, making them as synergistically effective as possible.
You can still get into the second stream of the course, which started in early December. The second season is about manifestation, because only a manifested mentor can help other people manifest themselves.
To manifest yourself means to be yourself and let others be themselves. But you can only allow other people to manifest themselves when you are in harmony with yourself.
Our readers have been following your activity on social networks and have seen that you have discovered a new role for yourself: one of an interior designer and foreman. So far, in your own home, how did you like this experience?
In fact, this is a continuation of the manifestation theme. My apartment is one of the facets of my manifestation. At some point, I realized that I had already outgrown my previous apartment: mentally and physically. I started to run out of space. The new apartment is 1.5 times larger than the previous one.
I was interested in creating an interior that reflects me 100% in the present.
My psychologist likes to joke that the interior of the new apartment is quite masculine. There are no pastel colors, the shapes are clear, the textures too: I used leather, marble and wood.
I put the whole project together myself, and we implemented it in less than a month.

For L&rsquo;Officiel you starred in a provocative photo shoot with naked men. Are you trying to challenge the stereotypes of society, in whose subconscious only a successful man can appear surrounded by naked girls? Please tell us about the idea of shooting, we are very curious. 
One of my missions is fight gender stereotypes. One of them: if there are many women next to a successful man, then he is handsome; if there are many men next to a successful woman, then she is most likely a woman of easy virtue.
I would like to eradicate this stereotype. This photo shoot is about a strong woman, the fact that a strong woman is not a man in a skirt. Her traits are inner strength, inner freedom, high level of acceptance, intelligence and intuition. These are all feminine traits. In the modern world, a woman does not have to be a homemaker in order to feel feminine.
In the photo shoot I wanted to play with contrasts: I am wearing a suit, and the men are naked, I am alone, but they are many, we are flirting with stereotypes and this video is a clear demonstration of my main motto in life: &ldquo;Anything is possible!&rdquo;
Where did the filming take place?
In Los Angeles. We found a home in the Hollywood Hills with a stunning design and layout. We selected the models together with the photo shoot producer Mila Zvereva. We had a stylist and makeup artist working with us, collaborating with top celebrities. It was very cool to see how the idea came to life and was embodied in such an interesting product.

Has your opinion of Los Angeles as a city of dreams changed over time? What is the main modern city of trends today?
I've never had dreams related to Los Angeles. Probably because I never dreamed of becoming an actress and did not do low-paid work here, I moved having money already. In addition, I have always had a realistic perception of the city, without embellishment.
What I love about Los Angeles, what has remained and will remain, in my opinion, true about it forever, is that everyone here can be whoever they want to be. There is a very high degree of diversity and diversification of people here. People have the opportunity to express themselves however they want. You can be super healthy, a drug addict, a yogi, super spiritual, you can be anything.
Los Angeles is like a big hostel for me. No one stops you from being what you want or limits your freedom. But at the same time, your freedom ends where it violates the freedom of another. Here people treat the freedom of others with great tact.
Los Angeles is the city in which I feel the freest. And it is freer for me than Europe, where I traveled a lot a year ago. This is where I am at home.
In an era of oversaturated information space, is it difficult to choose really interesting things for yourself? What areas are you currently interested in and what attracts your attention? 
My interests are quite broad. Interior design, since I was moving and created an apartment project myself - I selected colors, textures, furniture, design objects. I love biohacking and everything related to increasing life expectancy: sleep life hacks, vitamins, minerals and dietary supplements, infrared light. I love watching my condition change and studying it. I am interested in yoga and meditation. I have been practicing yoga for more than six years, and I have been meditating daily for more than seven years, I think it has been a significant contribution to my health and mental state.
I'm a bookworm. I love to study, read books on psychology and self-development. Most often, buy courses on topics that interests me, in Russian and English.
I&rsquo;m also interested in contemporary art, and I&rsquo;m planning to organize my own exhibition soon. I recently started drawing and realized that in art the main thing is a statement, that is, what you encrypt in your work, and not how realistic your painting is.

How do you take a break from social networks?
I detox. I have a wonderful team, and thanks to them I can post content without my participation. Right now I read, walk, travel, watch Netflix and do whatever I feel like.
You are initially a brilliant market specialist, they say there are no former market specialists, would you agree with that?
Extensive experience in marketing and high creativity help me in working and organizing a team. Now, with Aspen Method entering the American market, my marketing background helps a lot because I understand trends, I understand communication channels, I understand what positioning it is best to enter with, with whom to collaborate and what strategy to choose.
And yes, it&rsquo;s true - there are no former marketing specialists. This was my discovery in 2023 that you can be both a marketing specialist and a transformational mentor, and you don&rsquo;t have to give up any part of your personality, but make them become friends with each other.
What are your plans for next year?
Perhaps after the New Year I will go to South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, but I haven&rsquo;t decided yet. My plans for 2024 are grandiose: to attend the Cannes Film Festival, the Met Gala, I hope that all of them will be put into action.

Based on your rich travel experience, could you recommend to our readers three places in the world that, in your opinion, are a must-see.
Great question! Kenya. It is very beautiful: animals, landscapes, national parks. My favorite hotel in Kenya is Giraffe Manor in Nairobi, you can interact with giraffes there.
South Africa: Cape of Good Hope, Kruger National Park, Kruger Park, the coast, where you can see penguins lying. It's mind boggling to see penguins in Africa!
I do charity work in Africa, and these countries for me are places where my soul recharges.
The third place I would name, although I will not sound original, is either New York or Dubai. They are a little similar in energy to me. Dubai is a city where technology is developing very quickly. It grew in the desert for 30 years, and when you think about how people created a super-technological, luxurious metropolis from nothing, it is amazing. Plus there are no older people in Dubai, it has a cool young city vibe and is similar to Los Angeles.
And New York is a city filled with dreams, expectations and marketing. And in addition to the bustling life of Times Square and Central Park, it's home to art and cool museums.

Models
LILY ASPEN @<a href="https://www.instagram.com/lily.aspen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lily.aspen</a> MICHAEL CHABOT @<a href="https://www.instagram.com/mikechabotfitness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mikechabotfitness</a> ALFRED LIEBL @<a href="https://www.instagram.com/onlyalfiecinematic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">onlyalfiecinematic</a> TRAVIS DESLAURIER @<a href="https://www.instagram.com/travbeachboy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">travbeachboy</a>
Poto: MILA ZVEREVA @<a href="https://www.instagram.com/mila_zvereva/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mila_zvereva</a>
Style: HANNAH KERRI @<a href="https://www.instagram.com/hannahkerrri/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hannahkerrri</a>
Make up: JORDANN AGUON @<a href="https://www.instagram.com/jordannaguonmakeup/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jordannaguonmakeup</a>
Hair: OLYA BANAR @<a href="https://www.instagram.com/hairbyolya/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hairbyolya</a>
PR FIREBIRD PR AGENCY @<a href="https://www.instagram.com/firebirdpragency/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">firebirdpragency</a>

Lily Aspen: «My motto is: everything is possible!»

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