Illuminating Hope in the Shadows of Adversity: Nikki Walton & Tori Hope Petersen
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
Jesus Calling
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🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This week, we’re joined by Nikki Walton, host of GoOD fMornings with CurlyNikki and an influential voice in personal transformation, who shares her struggles with self-esteem and identity as a young woman to achieving massive success through her groundbreaking platform, CurlyNikki.com. Nikki's life was filled with accomplishments—but also a profound sense of emptiness.
Later in the episode, we’ll hear from Tori Hope Petersen, an author, speaker, and podcaster. After enduring twelve different homes in the foster care system, Tori aged out without a permanent family. Through the kindness of a foster mom who introduced her to faith, the guidance of a track coach who became a father figure, and her own unwavering determination, Tori rose above her circumstances to find meaning and mission for her life.
Links, Products, and Resources Mentioned:
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Upcoming interview: Loren Ridinger
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Wake Up To Love: Meditations to Start Your Day
Breaking the Patterns That Break You
Interview Quotes:
“I knew something was missing because I could look around and see what looked like success, like the American dream, and I felt empty. There was still this void. I had not found God and I didn't even know that that's what I was looking for.” - Nikki Walton
“I love myself and it's not in that superficial, surface-level love. It's like I went from outer beauty to inner beauty to beyond beauty entirely, and I appear beautiful to some because of His light shining through me.” - Nikki Walton
“I listen not for [God’s] voice booming, but for His silence, for His stillness, for His peace, And then I feel His stillness. I feel His peace. I know I'm in contact with Him when I feel lighter.” - Nikki Walton
“You can still be aware of that humbled nature, that humbled posture inside. That way, when you go out into the world, even though you are smiling and walking upright, you're still bowing to Jesus everywhere you go.” - Nikki Walton
“I had to learn through time that God doesn't just save us, He keeps us.” - Toire Hope Petersen
“I do think that God speaks to us in the way that we can understand how to do what's next.” - Tori Hope Petersen
“Our brokenness does not just point to the deficit in us. Sometimes our brokenness points to the disciples that we are, points to our faithfulness.” - Tori Hope Petersen
“God does not hate you and He doesn't want you to hate yourself. He wants you to embrace who He has called you to be, because when we do that, we can walk out the calling that God has placed on our life. God did a good job making you and you’re allowed to be loved.” - Tori Hope Petersen
“God is just so glad when we show up to be in His presence and to pray. He just welcomes me with open arms. He is our safe place.” - Tori Hope Petersen
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| 0:53.4 | with your mind. You don't have to fight your thoughts. You don't have to silence them. There aren't any left when you know only Jesus is here. |
| 1:02.8 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. This week we're joined by Nikki Walton, host of Good Mornings with Curly Nicky, and an influential voice and personal |
| 1:11.3 | transformation who shares her struggles with self-esteem and identity as a young woman to achieving |
| 1:16.6 | massive success through her groundbreaking platform, curlynicky.com. |
| 1:21.3 | Nikki's life was filled with accomplishments, but also a profound sense of emptiness. |
| 1:26.4 | Later in the episode, we'll hear from Torrey Hope Peterson, an author, speaker, and podcaster. |
| 1:32.0 | After enduring 12 different homes in the foster care system, Tori aged out without a permanent family. |
| 1:37.9 | Through the kindness of a foster mom who introduced her to faith, the guidance of a track coach who became a father figure, and her own unwavering |
| 1:45.1 | determination. Tori rose above her circumstances to find meaning and mission for her life. |
| 1:50.4 | Let's begin with Nikki's story. I am Nikki Walton. I am the podcast host of Good Mornings |
| 1:59.8 | with Curly Nikki. I'm also a mommy and a daughter and a sister and a friend, a child of God. |
| 2:08.6 | I was born Catholic and my earliest childhood memory is being afraid to die. |
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