Books, Life Coaching, Holistic Health Counseling & More for Your Charmed Life

Victoria Moran is the author of ten books…

…I’ve been writing for publication since I was a teenager. I wanted to meet the Beatles so I got a $1 press card from a teen magazine. It worked: I got into my first Beatles’ press conference at fourteen, my second at fifteen, and when I was seventeen, Paul McCartney bought me a drink. That’s when I knew that even though I was just an ordinary girl from Kansas City with a recurrent weight problem and bad skin, I really did live a charmed life. My books are about well-being and living magically. If I had to pick my faves, they would be Creating a Charmed Life and Fit from Within.

A motivational speaker specializing in inspiration, wellness, and personal growth

…I’ve also been speaking since I was a kid – first for school assemblies and Rotary Clubs, and on from there. I’m fortunate in that I have only one gift: words, spoken and written. People who have a wide variety of talents have more trouble figuring out which one to pursue…

…A certified life coach specializing in spiritual-life coaching…

…coaching is my way to have an ongoing relationship with individuals who are serious about changing their lives. Because most coaching is done by phone, I have clients from around the country.

…And holistic health counselor…

…I’m certified by the American Academy of Drugless Practitioners as a Holistic Health Counselor (CCHC, AADA), a wonderful process of helping people learn healthy lifestyle habits in a fun and delicious way. I do holistic health counseling by phone (it can be combined with life coaching), and in person in New York City. There is more about both the life coaching and holistic health counseling on my coaching page (link).

A native of Kansas City, Missouri…

…Kansas City will always be my town. That was where I learned to love urban life, and I’m so proud of hailing from a place that hosted, for long or short periods, luminaries like Walt Disney, Harry Truman, Satchel Paige, Ernest Hemingway, Count Basie, Jean Harlow, Charlie “Bird” Parker, and Thomas Hart Benton…

…and an adopted New Yorker…

…I am nuts about New York City. I’ve been here more than ten years now and I am still so in love with this city that every morning when I go out in it, I can hardly believe I’m really here. The energy is infectious and every wonderful thing somehow seems possible in this amazing place.

Victoria is married…

I married William Melton in 1997. (My first husband, Patrick Moran, died ten years earlier.) William is a wonderful, sweet man who loves me like the dickens. He’s a business consultant and a writer. He wrote The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Playing the Harmonica coauthored with Randy Weinstein, and he’s now working on screenplays and a stage musical. We live in Harlem with our cat, Bobby.

…And the family includes

…my daughter, Adair Moran, actress and stuntwoman, www.adairmoran.com, who lives here in New York with her husband, actor and variety performer, Nick Moran (he took her name—isn’t that cool?): www.nicholasmoran.com; and their two dogs. (In my early books, she was “Rachael,” but she changed to her middle name when she was fourteen.) William’s daughter, Sian Melton, is a fashion photographer and makeup artist in Toronto: www.sianmelton.com; and his son, Erik Melton, is a sound engineer and bass player in the Canadian capital.

Tragically, we lost James, William’s sixteen-year-old son, to a freak illness in 2007. He was an amazing kid, funny and bright, and with tremendous compassion. I don’t pretend to understand how life works and why things happen the way they do. I do believe with all my heart that there is a reason for everything, a reason that will one day make sense. My commitment to everyone I love, both those in this world and the ones on the other side of life, is to live fully, cherish each day, experience joy, and use whatever gifts I have to make a difference.