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By Amber Weigand-Buckley (LH Editor)

ON THE COVER

In 2006, some people came to ministry after a life of relative ease, moved by gratitude. Nicki Corinne White came to it the other way—

—through hardship so deep that as a young teenager, her most fervent wish was that circumstances would turn around— that her family would find stability— someone to turn everything around.

Decades later, she became the person who shows up. Through books, videos, workbooks and prayer, she has built Live Boldly Ministries into a quietly remarkable outpost of encouragement for people who know exactly what it feels like when life stops cooperating.

Her story begins on a horse ranch in Washington state, where she and her sister, Lisa, were adopted young into a family that felt solid—until their adoptive father died suddenly in their teenage years, leaving no will and no income.

Two girls. No safety net. A world that had simply moved on. What followed were years of trial, of learning to navigate hardship without a map. But in the wreckage, something else emerged: faith. And eventually, their birth family tracked them down, adding yet another complicated chapter to an already layered life.

“As a young teen, my wish to find stability became a calling—and the calling became a ministry.”

She didn’t start writing until her 50s. She wants you to know that. It’s not a footnote—it’s the point. Because one of the things Nicki is most determined to communicate is that it is never too late to share your faith, tell your story or step into the thing God has been preparing you for all along.

“And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed” (2 Corinthians 9:8 NASB1995).

Not a Princess—A Witness Worth Hearing 

Her first book, Not Really a Princess, is the place to begin.

It is her testimony in full—the ranch, the loss, the faith and the complicated grace of a life rebuilt from the ground up. She wrote it because she wanted others to see what God does in the rubble. And she wrote it because she believed—correctly, it turns out—that her story would give others permission to share theirs.

That impulse runs through everything she produces. Nicki doesn’t write for people who have it together. She writes for the person holding on by a thread, who wonders whether faith is enough when life keeps adding weight. Her answer, offered without sentimentality and without pretense, is: yes. And her body of work bears that out.

Four Books. Three Workbooks. One Unrelenting Mission. 

Look at what Nicki has built since 2017 and you’ll find something that consistently surprises—not just the volume but the intentionality of it. Each of her works following Not Really a Princess grew out of a specific need, prompting her to put pen to whatever she was walking through in real time.

Nothing is filler— everything hits the heart of a specific need. It’s Not About the Pie offers the clarifying word on hospitality: your home doesn’t have to be perfect to be a place where grace is offered. BOLD—Living Intentionally in Today’s World was written during COVID, filled with testimonies of people, living and dead, who stepped out in audacious, purposeful faith.

Alongside the books, Nicki produced a 45-week video series on YouTube—short, practical and usable— covering how to live a godly life, how to write out your testimony and how to lead someone to Christ. Three workbooks, each 15 episodes long, accompany the series for individual study or small groups. She built the tools she wished someone had handed her when she needed them most.

COVID Didn’t Slow Her Down. 

When the pandemic arrived and fear settled over everything, Nicki sat down and got to work.

The result was BOLD,a book that pushed back against the panic, not with false comfort but with testimony after testimony of men and women who chose to live with purpose even when the world felt like it was ending. Her argument was simple and it held: God is still on the throne. He is sovereign. And that changes how we live today.

She also launched a podcast during this season, running it for nearly two years. Nicki interviewed compassion ministry leaders from across the country— people on the front lines of meeting physical and spiritual needs, sharing the gospel in the hardest places. She wasn’t catastrophizing. She was documenting faithfulness.

“God is still on the throne. He is sovereign and in control. We need to live our lives with purpose.”

Why Her Latest Work May Be Her Most Important 

Released in September 2025, The Path After Grace —The Journey is the book Nicki has been building toward.

It takes up the question that follows every salvation story: what happens next? The answer, she argues, is a lifelong process of sanctification—full of joy, full of sorrow and full of a God who is actively pruning us into something we couldn’t have produced on our own.

Salvation opens the door, she writes, but then God takes us down a path that can be overwhelming at times. He is molding us into a new creation beyond what we can imagine.

For anyone who has wondered why faith doesn’t make life easier—she felt the need to put together The Path as a companion for the long walk of faith.

90 Seconds at a Time 

Her latest offering is perhaps the most quietly radical: Live Jesus, a video series of roughly 90-second episodes—a Scripture, a word of encouragement, just enough to reorient your day.

In a media environment engineered for anxiety, Nicki is making a different kind of counter-offer. Here is something true. Here is something that will hold. Go live it. Nicki doesn’t know exactly what’s next. Yes, that probably includes more books, but whatever is on her horizon, she’s at peace, which tells you something about the woman.

What I can tell you is this: the body of work Nicki has built in just nine years is the fruit of someone who stopped waiting for the world to settle down before she started living on purpose. For anyone ready to do the same, she has left a very clear trail.

Find Nicki’s books, workbooks, video series and podcast through Live Boldly Ministries. Follow Live Jesus on YouTube for a daily 90-second word of encouragement.