The Renaissance Files Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Asked about his creative process,  ⁨@PatrickCWalters⁩   traces it back to one thing: authenticity. He performs under his own name because he's giving his audience a firsthand, authentic experience — telling them about his actual life, sharing the unique parts of his own story and the lessons he's picked up from others along the way. What he won't do is tell a story...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes you have to fail first — that's where resilience and consistency get built.  And when it finally clicks, remember: the most important component to advancing your life was always you. So be careful where you seek validation.  The wrong feedback can cost you your purpose.  Follow for a daily gem — keep elevating 🔔 Subscribe for a new gem every day 📲 Instagram: https...

Send us Fan Mail When I started my fitness journey, everyone talked about how hard it'd be.  They were right — it was. But I set the intention and locked in, because it was never about proving them wrong. It was about reinforcing the belief in myself.  Past experiences don't dictate future outcomes. Follow for a daily gem — keep elevating 🔔 Subscribe for a new gem every day 📲 Instagram...

Send us Fan Mail  Every single thing you know, you once didn't — you learned it.  That's your proof you can learn anything you commit to. It's literally how the brain works.  People do impossible things every day. So why not you?  Follow for a daily gem — keep elevating  🔔 Subscribe for a new gem every day 📲 Instagram: https://tr.ee/D4fTzGmbnG 🎵 TikTok: https://tr.ee/X97_oxZo2u...

Send us Fan Mail ​ ⁨@PatrickCWalters⁩ wishes  someone had pushed him to be even more proactive early on as an artist. He's quick to credit his parents for the values and work ethic that got him here — he wouldn't be where he is without them. But specifically as an artist, in those first year-and-a-half to two years when he was broke and deep in grind mode, he was largely waiting for oppo...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever shared a dream… and watched someone talk you out of it? What if the fastest way to kill your vision isn't failure… it's feedback from the wrong person? We've been conditioned to chase the co-sign — the green light, the reassurance, the permission — before we ever take the first step. But the people you're asking for approval often can't see w...

Send us Fan Mail Not all advice is worth taking — and not all doubt is worth carrying. In this segment, Juda$ X breaks down why the source of feedback matters more than the feedback itself: you wouldn't ask a mechanic about your taxes, so why take direction on your life from someone with no expertise and no stake in your success? Here's the part most people miss: others can't actual...

Send us Fan Mail You can receive genuinely great advice that still isn’t applicable to you. Most people won’t recognize what it looks like when things are working for you — because they don’t have a reference point. Asking them to validate your vision is like handing someone your prescription glasses and expecting them to read the board. Just because it hasn’t been done frequently doesn’t mean it...

Send us Fan Mail Patrick Walters offers a reframe most people get backwards: it's good to have regrets. Regret means you've grown and gained perspective — you can look back, see where you went wrong, and learn from it. But your regret doesn't have to define you. His own regret? Not being more proactive early in his career, specifically with organization. He spent too long believing...

Send us Fan Mail Every time you say yes to the crowd, you say no to yourself. Live for the applause and you’ll spend your whole life at the mercy of people who won’t be there when the cheering stops. The worst outcome isn’t failing — it’s succeeding at someone else’s dream and realizing the destination was never yours. Pick your own direction before you spend years walking someone else’s. Follow f...

Send us Fan Mail The fastest way to kill your big dream is to hand it to someone who can’t see it. Their vision has a ceiling. Yours doesn’t. Stop expecting other people to recognize what was made for you — the vision was given to you for a reason. You don’t need a co-signer to take the first step. You need conviction. Follow for a daily gem — keep elevating 🔔 Subscribe for a new gem every day 📲...

Send us Fan Mail ​ ⁨@PatrickCWalters⁩   learned a lot about himself in his hardest seasons and became a better individual for it — and he's genuinely thankful for that period. But, he says, that doesn't mean he has to glorify the struggle. He wants to make sure he doesn't have to keep struggling moving forward. It's about respecting that part of his life and the lessons it taug...

Send us Fan Mail You have to fail first to succeed — life is a game of trial and error. No matter how good you get, you’ll never be perfect, so you’re going to get things wrong. How you deal with that temporary failure is what determines how far you’ll go. In today’s gem: why shying away from failure robs you of the chance to grow, and why the elevation you’re seeking always sits just outside your...

Send us Fan Mail Running from your problems won’t fix them. Focusing only on them amplifies them. And complaining about them wastes the very time, effort, and energy you need to solve them. In today’s gem: why action is the only real remedy — and why talking without doing keeps you exactly where you are. Expect problems the way you expect night to follow day, because life and problems travel toget...

Send us Fan Mail ​ ⁨@PatrickCWalters⁩   offers a reframe most people get backwards: it's good to have regrets. Regret means you've grown and gained perspective — you can look back, see where you went wrong, and learn from it. But your regret doesn't have to define you. His own regret? Not being more proactive early in his career, specifically with organization. He spent too long bel...

Send us Fan Mail Life is about results. Progress is about consistency. The hard truth is that the days you least feel like showing up are the days it matters most — because no one else is going to do the work for you. In today’s gem: why life isn’t only about doing what you want, but also about doing what you’d rather avoid. Why your goals only care about what you’ve done lately. And how small win...

Send us Fan Mail For Patrick Walters, success isn't about doing as many things as possible. He has no problem saying no to a project he doesn't believe in. What he does have a problem with is passing up an opportunity to enrich or enhance his life, or someone else's, by taking on a creative project he deems worthy, fun and engaging, character-building, worth his time, and potentiall...

Send us Fan Mail Asked for the best advice he's ever gotten but never used,  ⁨@PatrickCWalters⁩   offers a sharp reframe: can it even be good advice if it didn't apply to you? You can receive genuinely great advice that simply isn't right for your life. His example: a consultant once told him, while he was mapping out his career, to stop trying to do everything and focus on one thin...

Send us Fan Mail How important is it to surround yourself with people who have aspiration? Patrick Walters is a huge proponent. He points to the well-known idea that you are the five closest people to you — and he believes it holds a lot of truth. That's why, beyond just successful people, he intentionally surrounds himself with people who show great self-awareness and empathy, because those...

Send us Fan Mail ​ ⁨@PatrickCWalters⁩ friends span all kinds of fields and interests — and he sees that as a feature, not a coincidence. Everyone approaches life differently, but the foundational principles are the same. For him, it's not about connecting only with other artists; it's about surrounding himself with successful, productive, positive-minded individuals in general — whether...

Send us Fan Mail It's easy to say "I do this" or "I get booked there" — but  ⁨@PatrickCWalters⁩   asks the real question: what are you actually putting on the plate for yourself? What are you doing that lets you say "this was my stamp, my impact in my community"? He shares a line from Ivan Hanley, who he used to work with: "bring your house papers and let&ap...

Send us Fan Mail ​ ⁨@PatrickCWalters⁩   breaks down the leap from being featured on other people's shows to throwing his own — and it's not for the faint of heart. When you put on your own event, you have a lot invested on the line; like any entrepreneurial project, the show is an investment in your career, and the return can vary based on many factors. He points to running his own show,...

Send us Fan Mail Patrick Walters breaks down exactly how he launched his career as an arts educator — and it didn't start with a paycheck. He and his friend Josh took on a stack of pro bono work, going wherever they could to hone their skills, build up their CVs, and grind out workshops while getting into communities. That groundwork compounded: he went on to work with the Toronto Public Libr...

Send us Fan Mail Being kind doesn't make you weak — and allowing people to take advantage of you doesn't make you a good person. This RFP Gem of the Day is permission to hold your boundaries: being a doormat is not a requirement for being a good person, and disappointing yourself just to appease everyone else could never be a sensible course of action. You are the most important componen...

Send us Fan Mail Patrick Walters credits a big part of his path to the people he watched do the work first. Coming out of university in 2014–15, deep in poetry slams, open mics, and shows, he saw Dwayne Morgan — a trailblazer in Toronto's poetry community — doing arts education at a high level: workshops, speaking engagements, getting into communities, and giving young and old the tools to ex...