Mind Bully

Three-story house. Professional basketball career. Six-figure income. Everything he chased from the time he was a kid getting picked on in Fort Worth, Texas.

And Norense still felt empty.

This episode is a full-circle testimony — recorded live from his first apartment in Brooklyn, New York, on the first Monday he's ever missed posting since launching the Mind Bully Podcast in 2021. Not because he quit. Because God finally answered.

From being bullied for his gap tooth and skin color, to being sexually assaulted between ages 6 and 8, to chasing validation through basketball, achievement, and women, to standing in a new city with less money than he's ever had — and more peace than he's ever felt — Norense delivers one of the most honest episodes of the entire show.

The message? Gratitude. Not the Instagram kind. The kind that only comes when you've been through enough to finally see God's hand clearly.

In this episode:

• Why achieving everything you dreamed of can still leave you hollow — and what that emptiness is actually telling you
• How placing your identity in performance, roles, and achievement is a form of idolatry — and how to break free
• The connection between childhood wounds, sexual assault, and the desperate search for worth through external validation
• Why suicidal ideation is a lie from the pit of hell — and what God's Word says about who you are when the voice gets loud
• What it means to be led by the Spirit versus living by your vices — and why the two lives can look dangerously similar from the outside
• Why exposure leads to expansion — but only if you're consecrated and know who you are first
• A live word on gratitude: how to pause in a new season and recognize God's hand before chasing the next thing

Key Truth: "The desires God placed on your heart are a heavenly reality of your capacity."

Key Verse: Psalm 139:14 — I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

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Digital diary entries to explore my racing thoughts, to challenge my own assumptions, to examine and name my emotions, to express my feelings, while applying God's truth over my everyday situations..

Recorded live from a co-working space in New Jersey — couch surfing, sublet starting June 1st, figuring it out day by day — Norense opens this episode with a question that most people are too afraid to ask out loud:

What do you do when God doesn't come through the way you thought He would?

It started with an Instagram Live. A viewer kept asking the same question over and over: "How do I have more faith that God will get me and my girl back together?" And instead of answering on the surface, Norense went deeper — to the root of why we ask the questions we ask, and what we're really crying out for when we try to box God into the shape of our broken heart.

This episode is for anyone in a season of loss — a relationship, a role, an identity — who is still trying to control how God shows up instead of trusting who He already is.

In this episode:

• Why the question you keep asking God reveals what you've placed your identity in — and how to find it again
• What it means to box God into the shape of your broken heart — and why it leaves Him no room to be who He is
• How loss — of a relationship, a role, a season — is often God's protection disguised as pain
• Why God has already answered your prayer — and the real question is whether you're answering His call
• The power of serving in your season of need — and how giving unlocks what asking never could
• Why you don't know God like this until life forces you into a situation you've never seen before
• A personal word on surrender: losing a sister to leukemia, losing cousins, navigating a new city alone — and still trusting the process

Featured: Chandler Moore's "What I Needed" — and why the lyric "it's foolish of me to box you in the shape of my broken heart" captures everything this episode is about.

Key Truth: "Deploy yourself. Don't just look for employment — deploy yourself. Because everything is working together for your good."

Key Verse: John 1:1 — In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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Digital diary entries to explore my racing thoughts, to challenge my own assumptions, to examine and name my emotions, to express my feelings, while applying God's truth over my everyday situations..

God already said it's yours. But you still have to go take it.

That's the tension at the heart of Episode 244 — and it's one of the most convicting episodes Norense has recorded. Live from a 12th floor apartment overlooking the Hudson River in New York City, he unpacks the story of the 12 spies in Numbers 13 and delivers a message that will hit anyone who has ever talked themselves out of what God put in front of them.

The land was flowing with milk and honey. God had already shown up — through the Red Sea, through the wilderness, through fire by night and cloud by day. And ten of the twelve spies still came back and said: we were like grasshoppers in our own sight.

That's not just an Old Testament story. That's you every time you automatically reject an opportunity, shrink back from a God-given idea, or let someone else's failed experience become your ceiling.

In this episode:

• The story of Caleb and Joshua — and what separated them from the ten spies who gave a bad report
• Why automatic rejection is the fruit of low self-esteem — and what's really at the root
• How spreading a bad report about your own life pulls other people down with you
• Why staying in place is actually the irrational choice — not going forward
• What it means to "possess the land" in your real, everyday life right now
• Why God makes His appeal to the world through you — which means sitting on the promise isn't an option
• A live testimony: a PATH train conductor in New York who recognized Norense and reminded him that faith in action produces fruit — even when you can't see it

Key Truth: "You are irrational for staying in place."

Key Verse: Numbers 13:30 — Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "Let us go up at once and take possession of it, for we will certainly conquer it."

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Digital diary entries to explore my racing thoughts, to challenge my own assumptions, to examine and name my emotions, to express my feelings, while applying God's truth over my everyday situations..

Eight hotels. Twenty-one days in New York. Sick throat. Camera cutting out. No sublet locked in.

And Norense is still recording — because that's what confidence in God looks like when it stops being a concept and starts being a lifestyle.

This episode is a raw, unfiltered thought dump from a hotel room in Manhattan — a real-time reminder that confidence isn't built in the comfortable moments. It's forged in the uncertain ones. Norense unpacks what it means to stay bold in who you are when everything around you is shifting, and why the moment you stop giving God thanks is the moment your confidence starts to collapse.

Drawing from Romans 1, Norense reveals the dangerous connection between ingratitude and a darkened mind — and why praise isn't optional. It's protective.

In this episode:

• Why confidence is something you hold onto — not something you throw away when obstacles come
• The Romans 1 warning: what happens to your mind when you stop giving God thanks and glory
• How nitpicking yourself into the ground is actually lowering the standard God set for how you should see yourself
• Why you're not defined by every thought that comes into your head — and what to do with the ones that try to take you down
• The difference between thinking too highly of yourself and thinking too lowly — and why both are dangerous
• Why trying seasons don't break you — they reveal capacity you didn't know you had
• A personal inventory: sexual assault, suicidal ideation, losing loved ones, losing in sport — and why none of it disqualifies you

Key Truth: "I don't know where I'm going, but I know who's with me."

Key Verse: Romans 1:21 — Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

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Digital diary entries to explore my racing thoughts, to challenge my own assumptions, to examine and name my emotions, to express my feelings, while applying God's truth over my everyday situations..

FIFTH hotel in two weeks. No sublet. No guaranteed next step.

And Norense is still recording.

This episode is one of the most honest things he's put out — a real-time documentary of what it looks like to trust God when the plan collapses, the friend falls through, and the enemy starts whispering that it's time to fold. Recorded live from Brooklyn, New York, this isn't a highlight reel. It's faith under pressure, documented.

Using the story of Abraham — a man who staggered not at the promise of God — Norense breaks down the enemy's three-step strategy against your purpose: doubt, disbelief, and disobedience. And then he dismantles all three with the Word.

In this episode:

• Why the enemy doesn't attack you with obvious lies — he attacks you with distorted truth and seeds of doubt
• The three-step strategy the enemy uses to take you out: doubt → disbelief → disobedience
• What Abraham's rugged faith actually looked like — and what it demands from you
• Why playing it safe is one of the most dangerous things you can do with your life
• How to handle disappointment, betrayal, and obstacles without folding or holding grudges
• Why your dreams should make you feel the weight of needing God — and what it means if they don't
• A live prayer for anyone in a season of doubt, fear, and uncertainty
• A special word for Mental Health Awareness Month — why your feelings are real, valid, and not to be suppressed — but also not the final word

Key Truth: "Every punch is planned — because you've got greatness inside of you."

Key Verse: Romans 4:20 — Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God.

If you're drowning in silence, questioning your next move, or on the verge of walking away from what God called you to — this episode is for you.

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Digital diary entries to explore my racing thoughts, to challenge my own assumptions, to examine and name my emotions, to express my feelings, while applying God's truth over my everyday situations..