Renegade Chronicles Episode 1: Tactical Creativity, Time Armor & Doing It Your Way – with Keith Battle

📅 June 6, 2025🎙️ Episode 1 – Renegade Chronicles

🎙️ Episode 1 – Renegade Chronicles

🔥 What if the secret to getting more done... was doing less?

That’s the kind of insight Keith Battle brings in our debut episode of Renegade Chronicles — not just wrapped in career experience, but lived-in wisdom and creative grit.

Keith is a motion designer, editor, educator, and problem-solver who doesn’t just make things look good — he makes them work. In this conversation, we dive into storytelling roots, the concept of time as armor, and why doing it your way might take longer… but leaves a deeper mark.

🎧 Watch or Listen

📺 Full Episode on YouTube: Link Here

🎧 Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts: 📝 Episode companion content: www.renegadechronicles.com

🧠 Key Moments of tactical creativity from the Episode

[1:45] Storytelling Roots in OaklandKeith’s first “gig” was walking around Fairyland in costume, showing kids how to use the magic storybooks.

[4:48] Shreveport & ReinventionBeing a mixed-race kid moving to the Deep South in the ’80s shaped Keith’s resilience and creative lens.

[8:35] Music Led to MediaRecording demo tapes and experimenting with DAWs laid the path to video editing — entirely by necessity.

[15:00] The Keenan Ivory Wayans Moment“If I give myself something to fall back on, I’ll take it. So I didn’t.”

[20:55] When Creativity Collides with CorporateA bold client pitch was greenlit, then walked back — a lesson in risk, rejection, and recovery.

[36:00] Time Management as Armor“It’s how I protect my mentals, emotionals, and spirituals.”

[37:24] The Most Important Realization“I’m enough.” And how that simple truth rewired everything.

💬 Quote of the Episode

“Time management is part of my suit of armor… without protecting my mentals, emotionals, and spirituals, I’ve got nothing.”

🔧 Behind the Mic

This was the very first episode of Renegade Chronicles. Filmed in the KDOG studio., it was a mix of nerves, first-timer audio quirks, and real magic. OBS overlays, studio setup, and promo assets were all built on the fly — exactly the kind of “tactical creativity” the episode celebrates.

🌱 Final Reflection On Tactical Creativity

Keith Battle doesn’t offer blueprints — he offers perspective. And that’s the real goal of Renegade Chronicles: to highlight stories that don’t just break the mold, but melt it down and build something new.

If you’ve ever asked yourself:

• Am I doing this the right way?

• Can I build something real without a roadmap?

• What happens if I don’t wait for permission?

Then this episode is your signal fire.

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Until next time: Keep it curious. Keep it bold. And keep building your own damn map.