Mind Bully

Norense just returned from Dallas, where he held a memorial marking one year since his sister passed. This episode is the raw, unfiltered download of what that weekend taught him — about grief, about faith, and about what it actually takes to do the hardest thing you've ever done.

He built the memorial video himself. Two hours of sleep. A pounding headache. Weeks of avoiding the footage because every time he opened it, he brok...

This is the hardest week of Norense's year.

One year ago, he lost his sister. And in a few days, he'll stand at her memorial and deliver a video he's been carrying the weight of building — a tribute to a woman who beat stage three breast cancer, stood at a family reunion with tears streaming down her face, and pointed every ounce of her healing back to God.

Recorded audio-only from a rainy apartment in Brooklyn, this episode wa...

Fresh off a flight from his college teammate's wedding, voice half gone from cheering — Norense sat down to talk about a topic he doesn't cover often: love, dating, and the negative voice that convinces people they're not worthy of a relationship.

This episode is part reflection, part real talk. From watching his old teammate marry his college sweetheart, to processing his own season of singleness in a new city, Norense unpack...

Broken camera. Stacking bills. A friendship that imploded over a sublet. And the quiet, heavy question underneath it all: am I giving more than I'm getting back?

This episode is one of the most honest things Norense has ever recorded. No script, no polish — just a real-time account of what discouragement actually feels like when you've bet everything on a vision that hasn't paid off yet.

Recorded from New York City during one o...

The New York Knicks just ended a 53-year championship drought. And Norense was in a Brooklyn bar watching strangers from every culture, background, and walk of life — hugging, crying, screaming, and celebrating together.

And God used an orange basketball to teach him something about isolation, community, and why the enemy's greatest weapon isn't your past. It's getting you alone.

This episode is a raw, unscripted download from ...

In one single Sunday, Norense encountered four different people — at church, after service, and late that night — all wrestling with the same thing: negative thoughts, anxiety, suicidal ideation, betrayal, and the feeling that the enemy had the upper hand.

And then he hit record.

This is an emergency episode. Raw, unscripted, and delivered straight from a living room in Brooklyn — because the mind bully is real, it'...

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 answe...

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 m...

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...

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 ...

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.

Usin...

What does it actually look like to trust God when you have no roadmap, no guaranteed outcome, and no idea how it's all going to come together?

In this episode of the Mind Bully Podcast, Norense records live from a hotel room in New York City — one-way ticket, no lease, no plan — and breaks down what real faith costs and what it produces when you stop waiting for certainty before you move.

This isn't a theory episode. This...