Mind Bully

What happens when the pain you experienced as a child becomes the voice you hear as an adult? In this episode of the Mind Bully Podcast, Norense Odiase sits down with former college soccer player Nina Carlson for a vulnerable conversation about childhood trauma, sexual abuse, bullying, betrayal, identity, faith, and healing. Nina shares how painful childhood experiences shaped her self-worth, led...

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 thei...

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 th...

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, wher...

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 y...

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 t...

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 mi...

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 eigh...

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 lyin...

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...

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 wedding in Houston. A brand event in Silicon Valley. His sister's memorial. Editing her tribute video. Four straight weekends gone — and Norense sits down in his Brooklyn apartment to be honest about what happens when your mind won't slow down and the enemy starts whispering that you're wasting your time. This episode is a raw, unfiltered look inside his thought process as a creator...

Fresh off a flight from San Francisco — and a canceled JetBlue flight that nearly ruined his whole trip — Norense records this episode straight from the road, still fired up from two days in a house with 38 creators building faith-driven solutions in Silicon Valley. This one is a charge. A get-after-it, stop-settling, what-are-you-going-to-do-with-it kind of episode. Norense unpacks why the enviro...

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 becaus...

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..