Mind Bully

Norense Odiase
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Here’s a thought. When you’re hosting a constant battle within your mind, start a podcast to showcase some live results. Name your opponent “Mind Bully”. Share your struggles, triumphs, and every lesson you’re learning along the way. While you’re at it, invite friends to share thoughts with you on mental wellness, anxiety, self-help, and personal growth. Learn from their experiences and remind yourself that you have the mental stamina to overcome this ongoing battle. Lastly, remember to live, laugh, build meaningful relationships, and to not take life too seriously. Make sure you invite others do to the same. So what do you say? Join me every Monday!

  1. 1D AGO

    245. Faith After Heartbreak: How to Trust God When He Doesn't Answer the Way You Expected

    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 againWhat it means to box God into the shape of your broken heart — and why it leaves Him no room to be who He isHow loss — of a relationship, a role, a season — is often God's protection disguised as painWhy God has already answered your prayer — and the real question is whether you're answering His callThe power of serving in your season of need — and how giving unlocks what asking never couldWhy you don't know God like this until life forces you into a situation you've never seen beforeA personal word on surrender: losing a sister to leukemia, losing cousins, navigating a new city alone — and still trusting the processFeatured: 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. MIND BULLY PODCAST:SpotifyApple Podcasts SOCIALS:@kingno_@mindbullypodcast  If this episode impacted you, rate and review the podcast to help this message reach more homes and hearts.

    34 min

  2. 5D AGO

    God Brings Calm in Chaos - TT144

    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..

    11 min

  3. MAY 18

    244. Overcoming Fear and Low Self-Esteem | How to Step Into God's Promise for Your Life

    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 reportWhy automatic rejection is the fruit of low self-esteem — and what's really at the rootHow spreading a bad report about your own life pulls other people down with youWhy staying in place is actually the irrational choice — not going forwardWhat it means to "possess the land" in your real, everyday life right nowWhy God makes His appeal to the world through you — which means sitting on the promise isn't an optionA 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 itKey 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." If this episode hit you:Rate and review the Mind Bully Podcast — it helps more homes and hearts hear this message. 🎙️ New episodes every week | @mindbullypodcast | @kingno_

    31 min

  4. MAY 14

    Gods Job Vs Your Job - TT143

    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..

    13 min

  5. MAY 11

    243. How to Stay Confident in God During Life Transitions | Faith, Gratitude & Mental Strength

    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 comeThe Romans 1 warning: what happens to your mind when you stop giving God thanks and gloryHow nitpicking yourself into the ground is actually lowering the standard God set for how you should see yourselfWhy you're not defined by every thought that comes into your head — and what to do with the ones that try to take you downThe difference between thinking too highly of yourself and thinking too lowly — and why both are dangerousWhy trying seasons don't break you — they reveal capacity you didn't know you hadA personal inventory: sexual assault, suicidal ideation, losing loved ones, losing in sport — and why none of it disqualifies youKey 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. If this episode hit you:Rate the Mind Bully Podcast — it helps more homes and hearts hear this message. 🎙️ New episodes every week | @mindbullypodcast | @kingno_

    31 min

  6. MAY 8

    GOD SEES YOU - TT142

    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..

    13 min

  7. MAY 4

    242. Overcoming Doubt and Fear | How to Keep Going When God's Plan Feels Unclear

    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 doubtThe three-step strategy the enemy uses to take you out: doubt → disbelief → disobedienceWhat Abraham's rugged faith actually looked like — and what it demands from youWhy playing it safe is one of the most dangerous things you can do with your lifeHow to handle disappointment, betrayal, and obstacles without folding or holding grudgesWhy your dreams should make you feel the weight of needing God — and what it means if they don'tA live prayer for anyone in a season of doubt, fear, and uncertaintyA special word for Mental Health Awareness Month — why your feelings are real, valid, and not to be suppressed — but also not the final wordKey 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. If this episode hit you:Rate, review, and send it to somebody who needs it. More homes and more hearts need this message. MIND BULLY PODCAST:SpotifyApple Podcasts SOCIALS:@kingno_@mindbullypodcast

    39 min

  8. APR 30

    You're Worth the Investment - TT141

    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..

    8 min
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Here’s a thought. When you’re hosting a constant battle within your mind, start a podcast to showcase some live results. Name your opponent “Mind Bully”. Share your struggles, triumphs, and every lesson you’re learning along the way. While you’re at it, invite friends to share thoughts with you on mental wellness, anxiety, self-help, and personal growth. Learn from their experiences and remind yourself that you have the mental stamina to overcome this ongoing battle. Lastly, remember to live, laugh, build meaningful relationships, and to not take life too seriously. Make sure you invite others do to the same. So what do you say? Join me every Monday!

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  • Creator
    Norense Odiase
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    568
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Norense Odiase
  • Show Website
    Mind Bully

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