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 broke down. But he finished it — and standing on that stage, running on empty, he learned something that changed how he sees his own capacity: when you can engage the hardest thing in your life, you realize you can attack anything.
This one moves between grief, Scripture, and real talk on identity, calling, and why so many people dim their own light trying to serve everyone else.
In this episode:
Why grief changes your entire construct of life — and how faith reframes mourning without erasing the pain
The story of Luke 5 and the miraculous catch — and what it teaches about shifting your strategy when you've "toiled all night" with nothing to show
Why engaging hard, emotional things builds a confidence that comfort never can
How caring too much about serving others can cause you to dim your own light and abandon who God made you to be
Why your gift needs monetary value attached to it — and the danger of letting your talents be used without honor
The difference between cultural Christianity and a rooted relationship with Christ — and why only one holds up under real loss
Why every person breathing should create and express — and how your obedience might be the thing that saves someone's life
Key Truth: "Your feelings matter — but the call of God on your life is more important than how you feel in the moment. Feelings fade. Purpose remains."
Key Verse: Luke 5:5 — Master, we have toiled all night and taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.

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 wasn't scripted. It was necessary.
Norense walks through the last day he spent with his sister — the peace he felt walking out of a Sugar Land hotel with his family, not knowing it was the peak before the worst moment of his life, and the accidental run-in at a gas station that became the last hug, the last conversation, the last moment he'd ever share with her.
But this isn't a sorrow message. It's a surrender message. Norense unpacks why expression alone isn't healing, why suppressing your story hands power to the enemy, and why the same man who once ran to performance, women, and money to escape his pain found something none of it could offer: a hope that held when everything else was stripped away.
In this episode:
Why expressing what you've been through is proof the enemy doesn't have you — and where most people stop short of actual healing
The difference between "wisdom" and fear dressed up as wisdom when it comes to sharing your story
Norense's raw account of the last day with his sister — and the gas station goodbye he didn't know was goodbye
Why losing loved ones in college led to suicidal ideation, but losing his sister this year didn't — and the one variable that changed everything
How vices — sex, alcohol, drugs, workaholism, performance — are counterfeit nutrients for a craving only God can satisfy
The difference between being pure in heart and perfect in heart — and why purity is a journey of surrender, not a finish line
Why living below your privilege as a child of God keeps you trapped — and how to walk in the authority you've already been given
Key Truth: "When you're tired of running — when the drink wears off and the high fades — instead of pausing and running the other direction, we try to intensify. But more was never going to satisfy what only surrender can."
Key Verse: Matthew 5:8 — Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
⚠️ A note: This episode touches on grief, loss, and suicidal ideation. If you or someone you know is struggling, you can reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988.
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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 unpacks the lie so many people quietly believe: that wanting a relationship and not having one yet means something is wrong with them — or worse, that God doesn't want it for them.
He breaks down why isolation (online and in real life) is killing genuine connection, why curiosity is the antidote to assumption, and why surrendering your view of singleness to God is different from suppressing your desire for partnership altogether.
In this episode:
Why the lie "God just wants me to be single" is often fear wearing a spiritual costume
How social media creates a false sense of connection — and why being an "IRL guy" changes everything
The difference between independence and the interdependence we were actually created for
Why curiosity — not assumption — is how real relationships and community get built
How to engage the opposite sex without jumping to emotional conclusions or running from discomfort
Why your singleness has a purpose, and how to stop confusing seasons with permanent sentences
A challenge to surrender your timeline to God's will instead of partnering your fear with the world's narrative
Key Truth: "Will you listen to those outside of you who are worried about the feeling in the now, or will you partner your will with God's will and speak the next over your now?"
Key Verse: Romans 10:17 — So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
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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 of his hardest financial stretches, Norense walks through the tension every creator and entrepreneur eventually hits: the gap between giving, giving, giving — and wondering if there's an adequate exchange coming back. He doesn't pretend to have it figured out. Instead, he goes to Matthew 4 and Deuteronomy 8 to unpack why God allows hunger, why discipline isn't punishment, and why the enemy only shows up with doubt when you're actually moving in purpose.
In this episode:
Why you can be discouraged without being in despair — and the difference that makes
The real tension of being a creator: giving sacrificially while wrestling with whether it's sustainable
Why the enemy's favorite weapon is "what makes you think you can do this?" — and how Jesus modeled the response in the wilderness
The connection between Matthew 4 and Deuteronomy 8 — why God allows seasons of hunger before He feeds you with what you've never seen before
Why working harder from a place of fear leads to burnout, not breakthrough
The danger of becoming "thirsty" for validation, opportunity, or the next big break
A raw, personal word on substance abuse, addiction, and why Jesus is the only solution that doesn't just manage your mood — it changes how you see
Key Truth: "God is able to come through for you. Receive that by faith and move forward."
Key Verse: Deuteronomy 8:3 — Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
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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 Brooklyn — part testimony, part teaching, part real talk — about what happens when you stop hiding behind the pressure to have it all figured out and start actually doing life with people.
From church hurt after losing his sister, to being moved to tears by a stranger who saw him clearly, to watching Jalen Brunson silence every doubter — Norense weaves it all together into one central truth: you were never meant to do this alone.
In this episode:
Why the enemy's greatest strategy is isolation — and how shame, hurt, and "I'm good" keep you locked in it
What the Knicks' championship run teaches about being counted out, staying the course, and proving doubters wrong without making it about them
The danger of pseudo-vulnerability — saying how you feel without the facts to face your fight
Why "feeling, feeling, feeling" without healing is just a cycle — and how to actually break it
What church hurt looks like, why it's real, and how to not let it become a reason to isolate from community entirely
Why being annoyingly curious about other people is one of the most powerful spiritual practices you have
A live testimony of being prayed over by a stranger who saw him — and breaking down in tears because God used her to say I see you
Key Truth: "The enemy fights in isolation. There's no condemnation in Christ Jesus — so step in, show up, and stop letting shame keep you small."
Key Verse: Hebrews 10:25 — Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another.
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