Behind-The-Scenes On Me

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Hi, I’m Dr. Victorya!

I’m originally from Southern California and currently live in Dallas/Fort Worth with my husband Will. I am the author of multiple books, including How to Talk about Jesus without Freaking Out* (now in its 3rd edition), The Day I Met God*, Finding a Man Worth Keeping, and The Automatic 2nd Date. These books have been published in multiple languages around the world. (* means I co-authored with Jim & Karen Covell).

My professional writing career officially began while achieving my bachelor’s degree in journalism at California State University at Long Beach. At the age of 19, I got to be paid as a freelance music critic for my favorite national magazine CCM -- Contemporary Christian Music. It was so exciting to attend live concerts and get early releases of my favorite artists’ albums then write up reviews that were published.

During that same season I completed my bachelor’s degree, broke into the televised live award show circuit as talent liaison/coordinator for such shows as the Grammy Awards, MTV Awards, Emmy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards, and People’s Choice Awards. By 23 I was promoted to a talent & literary agent. For more than a decade I guided the careers of award-winning writers, producers, directors, actors, and technical crew (including Academy and Emmy award winners). What a privilege it was to walk alongside some of these Hollywood greats and see their dreams come true.

I am also a theologian and ordained minister. I achieved my doctorate from The Kings University with a focus on the benefits of Female Friendship. My Master of Arts is from Fuller Theological Seminay specializing in Ministry of the Laity. I have spoken at conferences, churches, women’s retreats, universities, and colleges across the country and have appeared on national television, radio, print, and the internet. I taught for three years at UCLA on careers in entertainment and have been coaching women on their life goals and transitions for more than twenty-five years.

My husband and I raised our two kids in a suburb of Dallas/Fort Worth and are excited to see their life flourish as young adults. Most importantly I am a passionate believer in Jesus Christ. That’s a little of how I got here. Below gives you even more detail if you REALLY want to know more about my expertise and experience.

Victorya Rogers Coaching was founded in 1998, by Victorya Michaels Rogers, an expert on careers in writing, speaking and Hollywood. She has over 25 years’ experience in media (10 years as a talent agent, 14 years in television, plus 3 years teaching at UCLA). Victorya is also a relationship expert and author of several books including Finding a Man Worth Keeping. This popular Christian speaker earned her doctorate from The Kings University and her Master’s in theology from Fuller Seminary, and has appeared on national television, radio, print and the internet.

The Coach
Dr. Victorya loved guiding the careers of her Hollywood clients but she wanted to have a greater influence on their lives than merely finding their next short term TV or movie gig. So she achieved her Master’s degree at Fuller Theological Seminary at night while continuing her agent career by day. Two years after graduating, she married Will Rogers, and walked away from the security of her agent career to transition to her dream career of author, speaker and coach. Since that day she had spoken across the country, written four relationship and inspirational books, and continues to actively coach people on major areas of their life including dating, relationships, writing and career guidance.

The Author
Victorya was single during her agent career which inspired 2 of the 4 books that she has authored. During her single years Victorya went from no dates to being pursued by an Academy Award winning actor, Grammy winning rock star, gospel singer, DJ, pro-athlete, firefighter, naval aviator, and more, Rogers not only discovered the secrets to finding a man but also the secrets to finding and keeping the man of your dreams. This former Hollywood agent went on over 100 first dates with 98% of them asking her out for a second date. She has dating down to a science and enjoys teaching dating skills to you. There is an art to relationships and dating. When recently asked exactly what is it that she does, Victorya quickly replied “I am in the business of teaching people to create healthy dating relationships that lead to healthy marriage relationships, in a world in desperate need of them.”  Rogers’ books include The Automatic 2nd Date and Finding a Man Worth Keeping. She co-authored the inspirational books The Day I Met God and How to Talk About Jesus Without Freaking Out and has contributed to several others. All four of her books have been translated in multiple languages.

Hollywood Career
Media Coach Victorya Michaels Rogers spent more than a decade as a prominent talent agent booking more than 25 million dollars in business. While earning her bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from California State University at Long Beach, Victorya entered the entertainment world at 18 through the live award show circuit with her first gig at the American Music Awards. Her first professional writing break was at 19 as a freelance music critic for her favorite national magazine CCM (Contemporary Christian Music) where she was paid to write concert and album reviews for some of her favorite artists! Two years after college she was promoted to talent agent at just 23. During her agent career, Victorya represented award winning producers, directors, writers, technical crew and actors for film and television. She was an agent at the Irv Schechter Company in Beverly Hills, franchised through them as a talent and literary agent by SAG (Screen Actors Guild) and WGA (The Writers Guild of America). Her wide range of clients won awards across the board, including Academy Awards and Emmy Awards. Victorya sold television series, animated series, talk shows and movies-of-the-week. She also taught three years at the esteemed Entertainment Studies extension program at UCLA on how to break into the entertainment business. Victorya has been a media career coach since 1998. She coaches people across the country on how to make their Hollywood dreams a reality and on how to write your own book and get it published. 

The Speaker
Victorya helps her audience find their purpose and learn to live their best life one day at a time through any life transitions. She believes your best life is the thrilling life Christ offers in John 10:10 and that is the underlying message she brings to all she says and does. Victorya inspires her audiences to rekindle forgotten dreams as she shows them how to catch them. With infectious enthusiasm, she speaks throughout America at conferences, universities, singles groups, retreats, churches, youth groups, and women's luncheons. 

Victorya has been married to her husband Will for more than 25 years. They live in a suburb of Dallas and have two adult children, Matthew and Katie. She has appeared on many radio, television, and for the past three years has hosted two streaming series “The Sofa’s Edge” with Christian sex therapist Debby Wade and “Living the Thrilling Life with Dr. Victorya”.

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Professional Achievements

  • Life and Love Coach since 1998

  • Co-Host of The Sofas Edge with Debby Wade and Victorya Rogers, 2020-2023

  • Host of Living the Thrilling Life with Victorya Rogers, 2020-2023

  • Christian Speaker 1998 to present

  • Entertainment career consultant, Victorya Rogers Company, since 1998

  • Talent Agent, Irv Schechter Company, Beverly Hills, CA 11 years. Franchised Talent agent with SAG (Screen Actors Guild) and Literary agent with WGA (The Writers Guild).  

  • University Instructor at UCLA for 3 years & UCO for 1 year on careers in entertainment, guest speaker at USC & Biola University, among others.

  • Freelanced at over 60 live televised award shows (including American Music Awards, The Grammy Awards, People’s Choice Awards, Emmy Awards, MTV Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards, etc.)

  • Music critic, Contemporary Christian Music magazine


Victorya’s Credentials

Education

Doctorate D.MIN, 2023 - The Kings University, Southlake, TX

  • The influence of Christian Female Friendship on
    Single Mothers

Master’s - Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA

  • Ministry of the Laity

Bachelor’s - California State University at Long Beach, CA

  • Major - Broadcast Journalism

  • Minor - Speech Communications

 Victorya is an Ordained Minister since 1996 (International Ministerial Fellowship)

On Core Missionary to Hollywood with NAMB 2004 - 2014

Published Books

  • The Automatic Second Date © 2007 Howard (Simon & Schuster)

  • Finding a Man Worth Keeping © 2005    Howard

  • *The Day I Met God  © 2001 Multnomah, Thrilling Life Publishers

  • *How to Talk About Jesus without Freaking Out © 2013, © 2000 Multnomah, Thrilling Life Publishers
    (*co-authored with Jim & Karen Covell)

DVDS/Videos:

  • How to Make it In Hollywood series, Host

  • Essentials Video, NAMB Productions, Featured interview

  • Rambling Road VBS Video, Featured Interview, NAMB Productions

TV Appearances (partial)

  • MTV Dr. Drew’s show “Sex w/Mom & Dad Talk” guest life coach

  • “The Joni Show” (National) Guest

  • “Life Today with James Robison,” (National) Guest 

  • “At Home with Chuck and Jenni” 5 appearances

  • Family Net Broadcasting (National), Guest

  • “Living the Life” CBN, 2 appearances (National) Guest

  • Fox News, Dallas, TX, Dating Expert

  • CBS News Oklahoma City, OK, Dating Expert

  • ABC News, Oklahoma City, OK, Dating Expert

  • “FYI” TV Pilot TBN, Dating Expert, Host of Dating Segment

  • “The Call”, Family Net Broadcasting (National), Featured

  • “The New Harvest”, LeSea Broadcasting  (National)

  • WATC-TV interview with Greg West

  • KDTX-TV Trinity Broadcasting of Texas

  • Fox news in Dallas Texas (two appearances)                           

Radio (over 200 guest appearances)
National Appearances, Partial List:
Focus on the Family, 2 day appearance “Hollywood from the Inside Out” broadcasts.
Beverly LaHaye Today  National
Decision Today, interview with Keith Peters & Janet Parshall’s America, National 

Luis Palau Evangelistic Association, 90 sec. radio spots synd. Appeared for two weeks,
American Family Radio, Today’s Issues, Christian Radio Network
WRAF Round the Country, Syndicated on 37 stations across 20 states

National Radio Appearances (200+ guest appearances)

  • Focus on the Family, 2 day appearance “Hollywood from the Inside Out” broadcasts.

  • Beverly LaHaye Today  National
    Decision Today, interview with Keith Peters & Janet Parshall’s America, National 

  • Luis Palau Evangelistic Association, 90 sec. radio spots synd. Appeared for two weeks.

  • American Family Radio, Today’s Issues, Christian Radio Network

  • WRAF Round the Country, Syndicated on 37 stations across 20 states

Hollywood Agent Credits:

Victorya sold the following Television Programming for her clients: Extreme (prime-time series starring James Brtolin for ABC/Universal), 2 Stupid Dogs (animated series for Hanna Barbara/Turner/The Cartoon Network), Abby Abelskeever (animated series for PBS), About Sarah (movie of the week for CBS starring Mary Steenburgenn and Kelly Martin), One More Mountain (movie of the week about the Donner family crossing America in 1800s), The Bree Walker Show (Talk show for Disney), Pandora’s Box (animated feature film for Hanna Barbera).

Victorya’s clients wrote, produced or directed the following TV series:
The Tonight Show, The Jeff Foxworth Show, Drew Carey, Sunset Beach, Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, Unsolved Mysteries, Homicide, Police Academy, Real Stories of the Highway Patrol, Renegade, The Greg Kinnear Show, Nightmares, Baywatch Nights, Born Free, Dead Man’s Gun, Della Ventura, Due South, Gun, High Tide, Land of the Lost, Old MacDonald’s Farm, Breaker High, Sweet Valley High, The New Mickey Mouse Club, The New Captain Kangaroo, Superboy, Power Rangers and more.

Victorya’s clients were technical crew for the following feature films:
(Below-the-Line crew includes: UPM, Cinematographer, Production Designer, Stunt Coordinator, Editor, Composer, Sound Mixer, Costume Designer, Script Supervisor, Make-Up or Hair)

Anaconda, A Smile Like Yours, Batman, Beverly Hills Ninja, Blues Brothers, The Brady Bunch I & II, Boxing Helena, Cutthroat Island, Dances with Wolves, Die Hard II & III, Double Team, Down Periscope, Drop Zone, Eight Seconds, Father of the Bride, Fair Game, Fire Down below, Glory, Guilty as Sin, Hope Floats, How to Make an American Quilt, Money Train, Operation Dumbo Drop, On Deadly Ground, OutBreak, Pleasantville, Power Rangers, Power of One, Private Parts, Pure Country, Ransom, RiverWild, Romy & Michelle, Rosewood, Seven, Space Jam, Small Soldiers, Sneakers, Species, Streetfighter II, Terminal Velocity, The Cowboy Way, The Phantom, The Substitute, TimeCop, Tin Cup, Twelve Angry Men, U.S. Marshall, Zorro.

Victorya’s clients wrote, directed or produced the following feature films: Leprechaun, Leprechaun II, Merlin, Mr. Wonderful, Ordinary Average Joe, Rumpelstilskin, The Place of Lions, Power Rangers 2: The Volcano.

Victorya’s clients wrote the following Animated Feature Films and Home Videos: Alvin & The Chipmunks Meet Wolfman, Babes in Toyland, The Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein, Fievel Goes West, Flintstone’s Christmas Carol, Hollyrock-Rock-A-Bye Baby, Hercules & Xena, I Yabby Dabba Do!, Land Before Time II, Land Before Time V, Land Before Tim VI, Rip Van Winkle, Scooby Doo & The Ghoul School, ‘Tis the Season to be Smurfy.

Victorya’s Clients wrote or produced the following animated television series: American Tale, Back to the Future, Batman, Beethoven, Beetlejuice, Biker Mice from Mars, Book of Virtues, Captain Planet, Casper, Cat & Dog, Doug, DuckTales, Dumb & Dumber, The Flintstone, GhostBusters, Goof Troop, Gummi Bears, Hysteria, The New Jetson, Muppet Babies, New Johnny Quest, Nightmare Ned, Pinky & The Brain, Problem Child, RoboCop, Smurfs, Sonic The Hedgehog, Superman, Tom & Jerry Kids, Two Stupid Dogs, Wizard of Oz, Where in the World is Carmen San Diego.

Victorya’s Clients were technical crew on the following Television Shows: (Below-the-line crew includes UPM, DP, Art Director, Editor, Stunt Coordinator, Sound, Script Supervisor, Costumer, Make-Up or Hair)

Baywatch, Cheers, Cracker, Cybil, Fame LA, Good News, Grace Under Fire, From Earth to the Moon, Homicide, I’ll Fly Away, JAG, Mantis, Model’s Inc., Melrose Place, Nash Bridges, NewsRadio, Nightmen, Nothing Sacred, 90210, OZ, Parenthood, Pretender, Profiler, Rockford Files, Roseanne, Sabrina, Seventh Heaven, Sliders, Twin Peaks, The Ben Stiller Show, The Tom Show, XFiles.