Mind Bully

The biggest risk in your life right now isn't failing. It's not taking chances on yourself.

Fresh off a weekend at Culture Con at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where thousands of artists, actors, filmmakers, and creatives packed rooms from keynote to workshop, Norense shares what stood out most. It wasn't a panel. It was a moment in line for a drink, when someone elbowed him out of the way to pitch their accomplishments to the person they thought had power. The executive just pointed her somewhere else. Then sat down and talked with Norense for a long time.

That moment became this episode: a look at how anxiety turns us into a shell of ourselves in the rooms we've worked hardest to get into, why promotion was never going to come from a person, and what it looks like to walk in with dignity, curiosity, and a heart to serve instead of posture.

Then Norense opens Luke 7 and the story of the centurion, a man who understood authority so well that he told Jesus, just say the word.

In this episode:

• What Culture Con taught him about anxiety, networking, and showing up as yourself
• Why over-explaining and leading with accomplishments isn't attractive, but leading with values is
• Promotion comes from God, not from the person you're trying to elbow your way to
• Why nobody you put on a pedestal has anything more than you in God's eyes
• When you're anxious, you can't see or serve anyone else in the room
• The faith of the centurion in Luke 7: authority, submission, and the power of God's spoken word
• You can't want the hand of God without submitting to the heart of God
• Why faith comes by hearing and hearing, and why repetition is how truth gets in
• A daily practice for taking anxious thoughts captive and speaking the Word over them
• You may experience anxiety, but it is not who you are

Key Truth: "You may experience anxiety, but anxiety is not your identity. You were made in the image of Almighty God."

Key Verse: Luke 7:7 — Say in a word, and my servant shall be healed.

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Five years. Every single Monday. Since September 2021.

This week marks the five-year anniversary of the Mind Bully Podcast, and Norense marks it the only way he knows how: raw, unscripted, from his new Upper East Side apartment with the rain coming down and the sirens going off outside the window.

It almost didn't go this way. A guest episode for the Central Park series was supposed to drop this week, but the audio failed 20 minutes into an hour-and-45-minute conversation. Frustrated, Norense took it to God in his quiet time and heard something he didn't expect: slow down. This is your five-year mark. Maybe this moment is meant to be yours.

What follows is a reflection on why the podcast started (a season in Germany marked by prejudice from a coach, performance identity, and suicidal ideation), what it has cost (family, friendships, finances, and a vision that hasn't been lucrative yet), and why he's still standing. It's also a word for anyone tempted to quit their God-given dream because the results haven't shown up.

In this episode:

• The new mission statement: confronting lies and restoring truth, one conversation at a time
• Why you can't start something on emotion and expect emotion to carry you home
• "Make your values verbs": turning what you say you believe into daily practice
• Principles vs. pivots: why what's built on biblical principle stays good in 2059 while the world keeps pivoting
• Express, don't suppress: why submission to God starts with honest expression in your quiet time
• A practical morning routine: phone out of sight, and prayer, praise, and supplication with undivided attention
• Looking for "shifts": how to find your stories in the small moments of change in your days
• Why confidence and taste only come by doing, not by thinking
• The honest truth about five years in: impact he's grateful for, and a vision that still hasn't paid off financially
• Why God wants you to win for His name's sake

Key Truth: "Don't build on past pain. Use past pain for a purpose, and build on principles. Principles stand the test of time."

Key Verse: Philippians 4:6-7 — Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

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What happens when the things you thought would validate you still leave you searching for something deeper?

In this episode of the Mind Bully Podcast, Norense sits down with model, artist, and actress Aslayy Baugh for a vulnerable conversation about identity, intimacy, rejection, relationships, faith, and discovering who God created you to be.

Aslayy takes us back to her childhood in Jamaica, where she grew up surrounded by warmth and community while still experiencing a sense of mental isolation. After moving to the United States, her curiosity, individuality, and desire for deeper connection continued shaping the woman she would become.

She opens up about finding discipline through martial arts, suffering an ACL injury that forced her to slow down, and eventually entering the modeling industry as a teenager. As success, money, beauty, relationships, and new opportunities entered her life, Aslayy began confronting a deeper question: What happens when the things that give you validation still cannot give you intimacy?

The conversation explores the danger of attaching your worth to performance, appearance, relationships, money, or other people's approval. Aslayy shares candidly about staying in an unhealthy relationship, searching for intimacy in places that couldn't provide it, and eventually realizing that the deepest connection she had been searching for could not be manufactured through another person.

At the center of the conversation is her growing relationship with Jesus.

Aslayy shares how her appetite began to change as she pursued Christ, how Scripture became increasingly alive and personal to her, and why she's learning to use her voice rather than allowing the modeling industry or other people's expectations to define the limits of who she can be.

Norense and Aslayy also unpack what it means to navigate ambition without making success your identity, to endure rejection without allowing it to determine your worth, and to challenge the negative voice that tells you what you create won't be good enough.

This conversation is about becoming comfortable with being different, finding intimacy with God, developing your voice, and having the courage to become everything God created you to be.

In this episode:

• Growing up in Jamaica and moving to America
• Feeling different even around people you love
• Immigrant families, vulnerability, and emotional intimacy
• Rejection, injury, patience, and starting over
• Building an identity through modeling and achievement
• When money and success become validation
• Searching for intimacy through relationships
• Leaving an unhealthy relationship
• The difference between knowing about Jesus and knowing Him personally
• Finding your identity in Christ
• How your spiritual appetite changes
• Reading and speaking Scripture aloud
• Sharing your faith without abandoning your personality
• Ambition, perfectionism, and the fear of mediocrity
• Fighting the negative voice with the Word of God
• Learning to use your voice and publicly live your faith

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It's the day after Norense's 31st birthday. And instead of just celebrating, he's asking a question most of us avoid: why is it so hard to let ourselves be celebrated?

Recorded audio-only from his new Upper East Side apartment (sirens and all), this episode digs into the voice of doubt that convinces you that you can't clap for yourself until you've "arrived" — that you can't receive love, help, or celebration because you're not where you thought you'd be by now.

Norense gets honest about his own struggle to receive — the birthday dinner he almost didn't have, the friend who pushed past his hesitation to make it happen, and the conversation that's stuck with him for years: "You serve everyone... but do you think some of it is for you?"

Then he takes it to the Word: the progression of Matthew 3 and 4 — baptized, tested, then preaching, then followers — and why so many of us want the followers without ever opening our mouths.

In this episode:

• Why the voice of doubt won't let you celebrate yourself — and why "where you are is not who you are"
• The "perfect product" lie: why believing you have to be finished before you date, build, or receive is demonic
• Why you can't love others well without a revelation of how well you're loved
• The birthday dinner story: what happens when a friend refuses to let you say no to your own celebration
• Don't say no for somebody else — why holding back your ideas robs the people they were meant for
• "Apathy is adjacent to death" — and why passion is proof you're alive
• The Matthew 3–4 progression: baptized, tested, preaching, then followers — and why the world wants followers without preaching
• How God uses technology for His glory — from Roman roads carrying the gospel to the smartphone in your hand
• Why heaven celebrates the one — so what makes you think you have to earn celebration?

Key Truth: "Celebrate it before you think it deserves celebrating. On your birthday, you better celebrate — because there's air flowing through your lungs, and you didn't have to be allowed to make it to this day."

Key Verse: Matthew 4:17 — From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

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Last episode, Norense recorded from the final hours of his Brooklyn sublet with no idea where he was going next. This episode? He's recording from his new apartment on the Upper East Side.

God is faithful. He's faithful. He's faithful.

This is the testimony episode — the receipt of everything he spoke in faith one week ago. Norense walks through exactly how it happened: the flight back to Dallas to regroup, getting sick, the family prayer call, choosing rest and prayer over striving and stressing — and then the Facebook message that came two minutes after a post went up. A 64-year-old man named Stephen, a building he's lived in for 38 years, and a door only God could have opened.

But this isn't just a story about an apartment. It's a masterclass on how God moves — slowly, then suddenly — and why He always speaks to the final version of who He's declared you to be, not how you're acting right now.

In this episode:

• "Putting pressure on God" — what it means to speak forth His promises in expectation without forcing His hand
• The full apartment testimony: from nowhere to go, to the Upper East Side, in a matter of days
• Why God moves slowly, then suddenly — and how to stay faithful in the "slowly"
• "Apathy is adjacent to death" — the phrase that convicted him and why passion is proof you're alive
• Why "that's not my personality" is not an excuse — Moses, Gideon, and David all had to step outside of themselves
• Confidence comes by action: birds don't pray to fly, they exercise their right to fly
• Psalm 1 unpacked: the blessed man who meditates on the Word brings forth fruit in its season — which means you're not late
• Speaking directly to the oppressor: anxiety, depression, and low self-worth have no authority over you
• Why God speaks to who He's declared you to be — fugitive Moses was a deliverer, forgotten David was a king

Key Truth: "He brings forth fruit in its season. That tells me you're not late. You're not behind. You have not missed it."

Key Verse: Psalm 1:2-3 — His delight is in the law of the Lord... he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season.

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It's the last night of his sublet in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. The next sublet fell through — the person never showed up to the tour. And Norense doesn't know where he's staying tomorrow.

So naturally, he hit record.

This episode is a real-time stress test of everything this podcast teaches — and at the center of it is one battle every believer knows: the war between the overthinking mind and the leading of the Spirit. The mind says "this doesn't make sense, go back to Dallas." The spirit knows he's called to this city. The mind wants to intellectualize everything. The Spirit says move.

Norense breaks down why the flesh always wants you to do less — stay quiet, protect your peace, don't say the thing, don't pray the prayer — and why the answer is defaulting to more. More obedience. More boldness. More faith steps. Including the story of a DM he received about a grandfather healed of cancer, after a prayer Norense almost let his mind talk him out of praying.

In this episode:

• Why your mind wants to intellectualize everything — and how overthinking quenches the Spirit
• The flesh always wants you to do less: why "protecting your peace" can become disobedience in disguise
• What "do not quench the Spirit" actually means in everyday decisions
• The prayer he almost didn't pray — and the DM that came back: a grandfather free from cancer
• What to do when your plans fall through and you genuinely don't know what's next
• How to receive advice from people who love you without absorbing their fear
• The Joshua principle: God said possess the land knowing there was opposition in it
• Why "the just shall live by faith" means living by feelings is malfunctioning
• Why authenticity comes from knowing your authority in God

Key Truth: "I'd rather default on more than default on less. The flesh always wants you to do less — don't quench the Spirit."

Key Verse: 1 Thessalonians 5:19 — Quench not the Spirit.

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You are not disposable. People can walk out of your life — but that has nothing to do with your value, your worth, or who God made you to be.

This is one of the most personal episodes Norense has recorded. In the span of two months, he lost two friendships — both, he believes, over the same thing: walking in the light and being misunderstood for it. Recorded from his Brooklyn sublet with just eight days left before another move, he opens up raw about disappointment, disrespect, and the temptation to shrink yourself down after people you invested in turn on you.

But this isn't a bitter episode. It's a leadership episode. Norense unpacks why your identity can't be built on your role in a friend group, why "hurt people can heal people," and why the answer to relational pain isn't isolation — it's going again, loving again, and serving again.

In this episode:

• Why you are not disposable — even when people treat you like you are
• The danger of building your identity around your role in your friend group
• Why nobody has the right to change how you see yourself based on one conflict
• How the enemy uses "pattern recognition" to turn two hard experiences into a lie about your future
• Standing in your convictions and having self-love — the balance between tolerance and boundaries
• Why walking in the light will sometimes cost you relationships — and how to make peace with that
• The honest challenge of platonic friendships, boundaries, and being misunderstood
• Why this life is about service, not survival — and how "hurt people can heal people"
• A closing prayer for anyone hurting from a relationship that ended

Key Truth: "Where you are is not who you are. Nobody has the right to change the way you see yourself based on a situation or a conversation."

Key Verse: Proverbs 4:23 — Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

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You are not your own. You were bought at a price — and there's an attack on your life, your future, and the version of you that God is calling you to become.

In this raw, unfiltered episode from his Brooklyn apartment, Norense goes deep on devices — the tactics and vices the enemy uses to gain access to your life. He starts where most people don't expect: not with the "obvious" sins, but with lying to yourself, unbelief, and putting your faith in your fear instead of in God.

Then he gets honest about the one the culture loves to downplay: sexual immorality. Norense breaks down why sex is spiritual, what a soul tie actually is, and how the enemy weaponizes people and past connections to keep you cycling through shame, isolation, and emptiness. This isn't condemnation — it's a roadmap out.

In this episode:

• Why the real war is spiritual — "we wrestle not against flesh and blood"
• The subtle vices most people overlook: self-deception, unbelief, and performance identity
• Why "you are always being led" — and the real question is who is leading you
• What a soul tie is, why sex creates one, and how to break it through Christ
• How the enemy uses people as weapons — the stories of Balaam, Samson, and Delilah
• Why anything that dominates you — your attention, intention, and surrender — is not from God
• The difference between deliverance and freedom — and why the Israelites kept wanting to go back
• Practical "blockades": how to set real-world parameters that protect your walk
• Why nothing external ever satisfies — and how to let God purify your desires

Key Truth: "Deliverance is the opportunity to be free — but you still have to walk in freedom. Walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh."

Key Verse: Galatians 5:16 — Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

⚠️ A note: This episode touches on shame, addiction, and mental health. If you or someone you know is struggling, support is available — you can reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988.

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You Are Not Who You Used to Be | Breaking Free From Shame and Old Habits

You do not have to be perfect. There is no perfect person breathing.

That's where Norense starts this episode — and it's a message for anyone who has been hard on themselves for slipping, falling back into old habits, and then hiding in shame instead of running back to God.

Recorded from his Brooklyn apartment after a long day in the Word, Norense breaks down one of the most important distinctions in the Christian walk: the difference between condemnation and conviction. Condemnation drags you backward into bondage and ties your identity to what you did wrong. Conviction draws you forward toward repentance and reminds you who you actually are in Christ.

This one is raw, scripture-heavy, and honest — a reminder that being a new creation doesn't mean the old appetites disappear overnight. It means you renew your mind daily, one day at a time, and let the Holy Spirit do the work you were never meant to do on your own.

In this episode:

• The critical difference between condemnation (backward to bondage) and conviction (forward to repentance)
• Why falling back into old patterns doesn't make you who you used to be
• What it means to be a "new creation" — and why the old man still leaves behind thoughts, appetites, and impulses to surrender
• The "HALT" principle — how being Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired lowers your defenses
• A walk through 1 John 1 and Hebrews 10 — grace is real, but it's not a license to do whatever you want
• Why nothing external — money, sex, titles, achievement — ever actually satisfies the deeper craving
• Why "man shall not live by bread alone" reframes Maslow's hierarchy entirely
• Honest, unfiltered thoughts on identity, culture, and why the real battle is spiritual, not surface-level

Key Truth: "Condemnation condemns you backward to bondage and identifies you with what you did wrong. Conviction convicts you toward repentance and your real identity in Christ."

Key Verse: Romans 8:1 — There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

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It's August. The rain is hitting the iron railing outside his Brooklyn window. And after 11 hotels, a sublet that ends in a few weeks, and a July where he was gone every single weekend — Norense sits down to be honest about the questions he doesn't have answers to yet.

Where's he going to live? Is he doing enough? Is he spending too much time in the Word, or not enough? This episode is a free-flowing, unfiltered reflection on what it means to keep going when the vision isn't fully defined — anchored in one unshakable truth: the God who started the work in you is faithful to finish it.

Norense traces the through-line of a whirlwind month — his sister's memorial, a brand trip in Silicon Valley, a family wedding, and a Texas Tech alumni weekend — and realizes God was showing him something the whole time: that he's a bridge. Between people. Between worlds. Between the person he was and the person he's becoming.

He also gets vulnerable about vices, sexual purity, and the honest truth about addiction — that the things we run to never satisfy, and only surrender does.

In this episode:

• Why Philippians 1:6 is the anchor for any season where you can't see the full picture yet
• The danger of building your identity around how you feel each day — and what to do with your emotions instead
• How to recognize the "through-line" God is weaving through your different seasons and spaces
• Why shared sacrifice creates a sense of belonging that nothing else can replicate
• The honest truth about vices: alcohol, drugs, women, gaming, hustling, even fitness — none of it satisfies
• Why you can't stop an addiction on your own — and what actually changes when you receive Christ
• The stories of Paul and Moses — and why God redeems, restores, and re-commissions
• Why testing and temptation are the forging fire that prepares you for war

Key Truth: "He who started a good work in you is faithful to see it to completion — but He needs a willing, yielding mind. You can't just sit on your hands."

Key Verse: Philippians 1:6 — Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.

⚠️ A note: This episode touches on addiction and mental health. If you or someone you know is struggling, support is available — you can reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988, or SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-4357.

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