Meet Victoria Spul | Writer, actress, motivational speaker

We had the good fortune of connecting with Victoria Spul and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Victoria, why did you pursue a creative career?
Sometimes I feel like I wasn’t the one who pursued an artistic career, but the artistic career pursued me! I was 2 years old when my mom first took me to her theatre. I was bewitched by the stage and the atmosphere of creating the performance. At the age of 5, I got my first part and performed myself. By the age of 9, I started to write. Poems, short stories, fairytales. I used to go to my teachers at school and ask them: “Can I skip today’s homework? Would you mind if I wrote my own story instead?” Usually they agreed, so I wrote a lot.
At 10, I was acting on a professional stage. At 18, I sold my first novel to a publisher. I chose this journey because I can hardly imagine my life without it! Art is my passion, my therapy, my wings to fly. I have no idea what it’s like to live without creating something.

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
I am a writer. I’ve published more than 20 books. Most of them are non-fiction motivational psychology books. But the work I’m most proud of is my novels. Especially the last one, “Fifth floor”. It took me 5 years to complete it. It’s a very complex and heart-breaking story about life after death. It’s a story of Robert, a well-to-do man, who dies and finds out his life wasn’t well at all. So he goes on a journey no-one has ever succeeded before: to escape from Heaven and
resurrect so he can fix all the mistakes he had made. Robert fights fate and the Universal system to reunite with the love of his life and save his kids from bad choices. But will his victory bring him back to life or destroy the whole
world?
This is the first book I published and sold without a publisher. It’s really bold. But I wanna do everything my way. I want this book to be really big. It’s already available in Russian. My next goal is to publish it in English. The novel is already translated and I’m trying to figure out how to present it in the USA. Maybe I’ll get a literary agent. Or maybe I’ll try an absolutely new approach and make it viral via social media. After all, I’ve been a social media manager and a blogger long enough.
Also, I wrote a feature script, “Fifth Floor”. The only problem is that it’s really big and epic. Usually it’s pretty challenging to sell your first script, especially when it requires a big budget and you are a script writer with no track record in Hollywood. But it’s a chance that I’m willing to take.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
I’d definitely start with a morning Aqua SUP yoga on Mother’s beach. Then a quick bite in a Killer Shrimp with a great view of Marina, where I specially recumbent a Lobster Roll. Then I’d walk you to Venice channels. We’d step to little boutique shops to buy some souvenir aroma candles. My choice is candles that are names after the US national parks (Yosemite is my favourite smell). Then we can get scooters and ride the beach. Starting in Venice all the way to Santa Monica Pier where you can get a great lunch and do some shopping on the Third street promenade!

I’d spent at least one day exploring Beverly hills, walking along Rodeo drive. Then moving to the Groove for lunch and maybe for a walk through Hollywood boulevard with all it’s sightings including Roosvelt hotel, Kodak and Chinese theatre. The perfect end of the day would be visiting Griffith Observatory and enjoying the picturesque view of sunset and hills.

Of course California is so much more then LA! I’d definitely invite my friend to take unforgettable ride on PCH all the way though Malibu to Santa Barbara and maybe even San Simeon to enjoy Hearst castle.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
Gosh! I’m so grateful to have a lot of mentors in my life. I’d love to give a special credit to Ivana Chubbuck. A completely outstanding acting teacher, the creator of the Chubbuck technique and the author of a world famous book “The Power of Actor”. Three years ago I was lucky to read her book and get to her wonderful Master’s Class. It totally changed me as an artist. Ivana’s main idea is to use your personal experience, including pain, trauma, insecurities, as a fuel for your art. She combines art and therapy and teaches us to create healing content. We heal ourselves in the process of working on a scene, we heal our audience. It’s a revolutionary approach that takes all forms of art to a whole new level. I’m so proud to be a student of this class for three years. And I’d love to say a special thanks to my mentor, Cameron McCormick. She is brilliant. She raised me and guided me from the point where I thought I should give up on acting because I don’t have what it takes. And I only took that acting class in order to be able to read and present my books a little bit better. Cameron empowered me to extend from writing books to writing scripts and actually come to LA in order to try myself as an actress.

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Image Credits
Igor Malachov. Valeria Sinitsina Ian Spul