Jade Williams is a Registered Nurse and National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach. She spent 10 years in the nursing field in various settings including emergency medicine, cardiac, perioperative, and integrative medicine. Seeking a different avenue for empowering individuals in their wellness journeys, Jade received her health coach training at Vanderbilt University. She received her National Board Certification through the National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching.  Jade is also trained as a Lifestyle Medicine Coach through the American College of Lifestyle Medicine; an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition; a Lifestyle Coach for the CDC’s National Diabetes Prevention Program; and is a Certified FirstLine Therapy® Lifestyle Educator. Jade has experience working as a coach, mentor, and facilitator with the Whole Health Institute, the Vanderbilt University Health Coach Certification program, and the Meharry-Vanderbilt Health Coaching program. She also partners with Caring for the Body LLC offering health coaching within a Functional Medicine clinical practice. Jade has experience in telephonic, virtual, and in-person coaching, as well as individual and group facilitation. She is a health coach with the MoVE clinical trial (Motivational Strategies to Empower African Americans to Improve Dialysis Adherence) through Vanderbilt University Medical Center and funded by the National Institute of Health. A student for life, Jade is currently pursuing a degree in Public Health with a desire to support the marginalized and underserved in optimizing their health and well-being. Jade lives in the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains of Western North Carolina. She enjoys all things outdoors, globe-trotting, studying Spanish, her Australian Shepherd and German Shorthaired Pointer, and cheering on Liverpool F.C.