Montel Media Group

Williams hosted The Montel Williams Show, a nationally syndicated talk show distributed by CBS Paramount Television, for 17 years, taping over 3,500 shows and interviewing more than 30,000 guests focusing on key social issues involving ordinary people coping with extraordinary circumstances. He received a Daytime Emmy® Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host; and later his show was nominated for Outstanding Talk Show two years in a row. 

Currently Williams’ focus is on promoting The Living Well with Montel brand which incorporates Williams’ life experience and the information he has accumulated through personal account and professional opinions. Williams developed the Living Well with Montel books and series of talkmercials with an emphasis on information and products that can help consumers live better physically, emotionally, financially and spiritually.  The Living Well product line currently includes the Healthmaster Emulsifier, Pressure Cooker, Rotisserie, Ab Coaster, TravelSafe kits and Skincare Line.  Additionally, sub brands of Living Well, Fuel of Life and Tommie Copper have been developed. The Fuel of Life products consist of a potent superfoods drink mix and a super vitamin pack based on Williams daily regime. In May 2011 Williams will launch Tommie Copper, a therapeutic copper compression pain relief product.

Giving back has always been a priority for Williams’. Over the years he has been involved in charities promoting diversity, the welfare of children, animal rights and veterans to name just a few. Because of Williams’ own military service, he has a special place in his heart for our servicemen and women. The past two years he has made a personal commitment to visit injured troops at our nation’s military hospitals on a regular basis. In the past year, Williams has also become active with the Fisher House organization in order to give back to the families of the troops. Williams has brought in family and friends to select Fisher House locations to help him prepare special meals for the residents while visiting with them.  In February 2011, Williams undertook an 8-day trip to Afghanistan to visit with US troops on the frontline.

January 2006 through 2009, Williams was the national spokesman for the Partnership for Prescription Assistance (PPA), a patient assistance clearinghouse program that has matched over 6 million Americans to public and private patient assistance programs providing them with more than $13 billion dollars of free or nearly free prescriptions.

Williams has been a prolific author of uplifting and practical books, of which four became bestsellers. They include Living Well Emotionally: Breakthrough to a Life of Happiness; Living Well: 21 Days to Transform Your Life, Supercharge Your Health, and Feel Spectacular; Climbing Higher; BodyChange; Life Lessons and Reflections; A Dozen Ways to Sunday: Stories of Hope and Courage; Mountain Get Out of My Way: Life Lessons and Learned Truths; and Practical Parenting.

Williams enjoys acting and performs whenever his schedule permits. Over the past few years, viewers may have seen him on hit television programs including “All My Children,” “American Dreams” and “JAG.” Williams contributed to the long running dramatic series “Guiding Light” playing “Clayton Boudreau”, which landed him a nomination in 2009 for a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Series. He also starred in the critically acclaimed off-Broadway play The Exonerated. Williams also starred and executive produced a prime time network series for CBS, The Education Of Matt Waters.

Shortly after being diagnosed with MS in 1999, Williams established the Montel Williams MS Foundation to further the scientific study of MS, provide financial assistance to select organizations and institutions conducting research, raise national awareness, and educate the public.  The MWMSF has granted over $1.5 million dollars to research and has supported a study done at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, which discovered an MS gene.

Williams began his professional career in the US Marine Corps in 1974 when he enlisted in his hometown of Baltimore after graduating high school. After six months, he was meritoriously promoted twice, and in 1975, became the first black Marine selected to the Naval Academy Prep School in Newport, Rhode Island to then go on to graduate from the United States Naval Academy. He graduated with a degree in General Engineering and a minor in International Security Affairs with Mandarin Chinese as his language. He went on to obtain a degree in Russian from the Defense Language Institute. He was then selected as Special Duty Intelligence officer, specializing in Cryptology. While serving in the military Williams’ was the recipient of numerous awards, medals, and citations including, two Meritorious Service Medals, two Navy Achievement Medals, two Navy Commendation Medals, and two Armed Forces Expeditionary Medals.