Mind Bully

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 r...

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 o...

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 ye...

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...

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..

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...

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..

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...

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 h...

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...

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...

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....

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..

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...

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..

It's 5:46am in Dallas. The lens is broken. The Uber is coming. And Norense is hitting record anyway. Because that's what faith looks like in real life — not perfectly packaged, not polished, not waiting until everything is in order. It's moving when God says move, even when the details aren't clear, even when the doubt is loud, and even when you're running on three hours of sle...

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..

In this raw, unscripted episode, Norense unpacks what overwhelm is really trying to do to you — and why the small moments of frustration, the micro-triggers, the "what's the point" feelings are not random. They are targeted. The enemy knows that if he can render you emotionally powerless, your gift never reaches the marketplace. Using the story of Joshua possessing the Promised Land,...

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..

You think it's over. You think you're done. You're not. In this raw, unfiltered episode, Norense breaks down why so many people feel trapped — in the wrong relationships, the wrong cycles, the wrong version of themselves — and why the answer isn't more willpower. It's authority. From the Fall of Man to the resurrection of Christ, Norense walks through the full rescue mission of...

This is my digital diary. I do this every Thursday. It is my reminder to check in with myself, and your reminder to join in as well. These will be unapologetically raw and uncut like Norense duhhh