Danny
Danny White grew up in the Mountain View community in the Upstate of South Carolina. In 1987, he graduated from Hampton Park Christian School in Greenville, South Carolina then attended The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina on a Marine-option NROTC scholarship.
He graduated from The Citadel on 11 May 1991 and the same day was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. In 2012, Danny retired as a Lieutenant Colonel with 21-plus years of active duty service in the Marines, throughout the world, as a combat engineer.
Along his life’s journey, Danny found God to be the Marine Corps motto Semper Fidelis (“Always Faithful”), particularly on one tough day during a military move. On 14 December 1997, he watched his pregnant wife Jenny and five-year-old son “Lil Danny” die in a single vehicle accident. Danny was amazed at how close the Lord was to him during the aftermath and the incredible comfort and strength God provided.
After much prayer in seeking the Lord’s guidance, Danny continued serving on active duty and met his wife Nora, and they were married in 1998. Nora adopted Hannah and Ethan then Nora and Danny were blessed with seven children: Lydia, Ian, Phillip, Erik, Noel, Christine, and Anders. And in their chapter of life together, Nora and Danny found God’s comfort and strength during two miscarriages.
After transitioning from active duty, Danny followed the LORD’s leading to found Lead with Liberty as a business to share leadership and resiliency lessons learned as a Marine, husband, and father.
God gave him direct guidance, while speaking at a men’s retreat in 2019, to shut down Lead with Liberty as a business and re-form it as a non-profit/501(c)(3) ministry. Danny and his wife Nora obeyed God to found Lead with Liberty Ministries, in 2020, to focus on encouraging Christian families to find freedom in Jesus Christ⎯just as He provided for them ⎯by sharing their story and lessons learned with complete transparency.
In 2022, Danny published a second printing of A Widower’s Walk: From Desert to Destiny⎯a memoir of his chapter of life with Jenny and their children Lil Danny, Hannah, and Ethan then the chapter of life with Nora and their blended family. This book is also available in E-book and audiobook formats.
In 2025, Danny finalized a book to share lessons learned about how to help someone working through the grief of a friend/loved one’s death—Purple Hearts of Suffering: How to Help Someone Going Through a Tough Time When You Haven’t Been Through That Tough Time.
In 2026, he plans to begin writing a third book with experiential wisdom to mentor young husbands and fathers.
Nora
Danny White grew up in the Mountain View community in the Upstate of South Carolina. In 1987, he graduated from Hampton Park Christian School in Greenville, South Carolina then attended The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina on a Marine-option NROTC scholarship.
He graduated from The Citadel on 11 May 1991 and the same day was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. In 2012, Danny retired as a Lieutenant Colonel with 21-plus years of active duty service in the Marines, throughout the world, as a combat engineer.
Along his life’s journey, Danny found God to be the Marine Corps motto Semper Fidelis (“Always Faithful”), particularly on one tough day during a military move. On 14 December 1997, he watched his pregnant wife Jenny and five-year-old son “Lil Danny” die in a single vehicle accident. Danny was amazed at how close the Lord was to him during the aftermath and the incredible comfort and strength God provided.
After much prayer in seeking the Lord’s guidance, Danny continued serving on active duty and met his wife Nora, and they were married in 1998. Nora adopted Hannah and Ethan then Nora and Danny were blessed with seven children: Lydia, Ian, Phillip, Erik, Noel, Christine, and Anders. And in their chapter of life together, Nora and Danny found God’s comfort and strength during two miscarriages.
After transitioning from active duty, Danny followed the LORD’s leading to found Lead with Liberty as a business to share leadership and resiliency lessons learned as a Marine, husband, and father.
God gave him direct guidance, while speaking at a men’s retreat in 2019, to shut down Lead with Liberty as a business and re-form it as a non-profit/501(c)(3) ministry. Danny and his wife Nora obeyed God to found Lead with Liberty Ministries, in 2020, to focus on encouraging Christian families to find freedom in Jesus Christ⎯just as He provided for them ⎯by sharing their story and lessons learned with complete transparency.
In 2022, Danny published a second printing of A Widower’s Walk: From Desert to Destiny⎯a memoir of his chapter of life with Jenny and their children Lil Danny, Hannah, and Ethan then the chapter of life with Nora and their blended family. This book is also available in E-book and audiobook formats.
In 2025, Danny finalized a book to share lessons learned about how to help someone working through the grief of a friend/loved one’s death—Purple Hearts of Suffering: How to Help Someone Going Through a Tough Time When You Haven’t Been Through That Tough Time.
In 2026, he plans to begin writing a third book with experiential wisdom to mentor young husbands and fathers.
