Judi Brandow, the owner and creator of Visits With a Victorian Lady®, is an author, dramatic artist, seminar speaker and singer residing in Golden, Colorado. She and her husband have six sons, two yet at home and four grown and on their own. They are also proud grandparents of three grandsons!

Judi's passion for the gentility and simplicity of the 1800s was born on the wings of curiosity early in her life, in part due to childhood visits with her great-grandparents who lived in that time-frame. Starting in her grade-school years, Judi began to amass a large collection of vintage books, scrapbooks, magazines, and ephemera that would eventually provide her with a rich and varied resource for researching her scripts and other writing.

Winning a local contest in 1990 for her authentic costuming and portrayal of a Victorian woman was the catalyst for Judi's beginning Visits With a Victorian Lady®. Since 1990, Judi has performed her Visits With a Victorian Lady® musical dramatic vignettes for a variety of groups including museums, service organizations, corporate functions, conventions, churches, shops, state fairs and the Federal Women's Program.

As a published author, Judi also writes a regular syndicated bi-monthly column under her trademark Visits With a Victorian Lady® for over twenty-five independently owned and operated Country Register newspapers throughout the United States. But, that's just the beginning!

Judi has long been dedicated to encouraging a return to the tried and true virtues of those who have gone on before us. She has recently embarked on a new venture! Judi has taken her years of research on the virtues of the past and coupled them with extensive training in personal life coaching -- the art of partnering with clients to encourage them in a variety of life transitions. Not only does she partner one-on-one to personally coach others in personal growth or career issues, she also offers a variety of practical women's seminars and workshops on topics such as "Life Balancing," "Today is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life," and "Creative Aging."