Next semester starts Sept 2, 2026 · 30 seats RenegadeAcademy
Join fellow mortgage brokers and build your entire marketing system.
Renegade Academy is an 8-week college-style live classroom for mortgage brokers. Together, with fellow classmates, you'll build your own marketing system that generates leads, referrals, and, sets you apart from all the others in your market. Your first year of the Renegade CRM (HighLevel) is not only included, but we build and learn it together to become an unstoppable machine.
Upcoming semester schedule.
We meet live together each week. You learn the strategies, then we build the system together as we go.
Mindset: how to get your brain to think like — and believe you are — a millionaire. Build your marketing schedule, protect personal-contact time as your most important business-development block, and get your Renegade software set up so everything that follows has somewhere to live.
Create one long-form video, use Descript to edit it efficiently, and turn it into one reel per day. We'll also build your Escape & Arrival messaging using examples, prompts, and a working spreadsheet. RenegadeAI: use the social media planner to organize and publish across your channels.
Segment your list, build automation that forces consistency, and create newsletters that people actually want to read — whether you keep them simple or use AI to sharpen the presentation. RenegadeAI: list segmentation, one-off communication, automation, templates, and newsletter building.
Learn the ads mortgage professionals should know how to run, including lead ads designed to generate inexpensive inquiries and the follow-up video that turns a name and number into a real conversation. RenegadeAI: capture the lead data, organize it, notify you, and begin the nurture automatically.
No new lecture deck. Bring what you're working on, what's stuck, what's confusing, and what needs to be built. We use the session to troubleshoot, answer questions, tighten campaigns, and make sure the first half of the semester is actually getting implemented.
Use events to create connection, lower the social barrier, build goodwill, and leverage referral relationships. Learn how to sponsor existing events — sales meetings, CE, tours, association events — or host your own webinars, happy hours, client events, masterminds, and events outside the Realtor network. RenegadeAI: invitation and reminder sequences, plus Ninja capture and follow-up.
Turn the database you already have into an active marketing asset. We'll work through follow-up, email marketing, pipeline management, direct mail, and reputation management so old opportunities and past relationships don't quietly disappear.
Build the kinds of partner relationships that make you the go-to mortgage professional in your market: joint content, business-building meetings, events, your own mastermind, weekly follow-up, and smart email communication that keeps the relationship alive.
Eight Wednesdays. One live semester. Strategy, classmates, software, and implementation — built together.
Already have a coach or coaching platform you like? Keep it. Renegade Academy works alongside good sales coaching, Realtor strategies, database programs, accountability, and business planning. Our lane is marketing implementation — learning the strategy and building the system together.
Not just another course. Live classes. Built together.
Renegade Academy combines strategy, live instruction, software, fellow classmates, and the build process together in one program. Think college-style semester: a real start date, a real class, a shared schedule, and eight weeks of learning and building together.
Live strategy
- + Eight Wednesday classes on a real schedule
- + Ask questions while the strategy is being taught
- + Learn from classmates' questions and ideas too
Implementation
- + Put the ideas into your actual business as we go
- + Build inside the same CRM you'll keep using
- + Lab time to troubleshoot what you're implementing
Classmates + alumni
- + Pre-class online mixer before the semester starts
- + Ongoing alumni strategy calls and guest speakers
- + Live events and Renegade Nerd Nights after graduation
Marketing that lives in your real business.
Each week adds another working piece. The goal isn't a binder full of notes — it's a marketing rhythm, a system, and assets you can keep using after the semester ends.
- 01
Your weekly marketing schedule. A repeatable plan for personal contact, content, email, database work, advertising, events, and referral-partner activity.
- 02
Your personal-brand content engine. Long-form video turned into short-form content, organized and distributed with RenegadeAI.
- 03
Your email and database system. Segmentation, newsletters, one-off communication, automation, pipeline management, and follow-up.
- 04
Your lead-generation campaigns. Facebook and Instagram lead ads connected directly to capture, notification, nurture, and follow-up.
- 05
Your event-marketing playbook. A practical way to sponsor, host, promote, remind, capture, and follow up from events.
- 06
Your referral-partner operating rhythm. Joint content, meetings, events, masterminds, weekly follow-up, and communication that makes you useful instead of forgettable.
Your Renegade CRM turns on immediately.
Your first year is included with tuition. You get our fully unlocked white-label HighLevel setup with Renegade snapshots, templates, workflows, and the tools we'll use throughout the semester — a platform that is $3,600 per year off the shelf. Log in before class starts, explore it, and come to the first session ready to build.
Darin Rhodes Mortgage people are taught mortgages. They're rarely taught marketing.
I've spent more than two decades in this industry, including years teaching and coaching mortgage professionals. I kept seeing the same gap: good originators knew how to take care of a borrower once the opportunity showed up, but many had never been taught how to systematically create that opportunity in the first place.
That's why Renegade Academy is built around implementation. We'll talk strategy, but then we're going to open the software, build the campaign, wire up the follow-up, look at the numbers, and make it usable in the real world. The goal is not to make you dependent on Renegade. It's to make you better at creating and managing your own demand.
One tuition. Training. System. Community. Software. Alumni.
Enrollment includes the full eight-week semester, the Renegade CRM for your first year, the class community, implementation support, and the alumni experience after graduation.
8 Wednesday classes
Sept 2 through Oct 21 at 10:00 AM MDT. Learn the strategy and build together each week.
Pre-class online mixer
Meet the other mortgage professionals in your semester before the first class so you're not walking into week one as a room full of strangers.
First year of Renegade CRM
Our fully unlocked white-label HighLevel setup, including Renegade snapshots, templates, workflows, and tools. Activated immediately after enrollment.
Renegade alumni
Ongoing live strategy calls, guest speakers, access to live events, community, and the occasional Nerd Night when we go chase the newest shiny object together.
One tuition covers the semester and your first year of software. The Renegade CRM alone is a $3,600/year platform off the shelf. For many mortgage professionals, $2,500 is less than the gross compensation from a single closing. If the marketing capability you build contributes to one additional closing, the tuition can pay for itself; anything beyond that is upside. No specific results are guaranteed.
Seats are limited to 30 mortgage professionals per semester. That's intentional. The value of a live class drops when the room gets too big to ask questions, participate, and actually build together.
You're in. Here's what happens next.
Your CRM is activated
You get immediate access to Renegade CRM so you can log in, explore the snapshots and templates, and start getting familiar with the system before classes begin.
Join the Renegade community
Get connected to the class space, schedule, resources, and the mortgage professionals you'll be learning and building beside.
Come to the pre-class mixer
Meet your classmates online before Sept 2. No curriculum. No homework. Just put faces to names and start the semester with some actual relationships already forming.
Start Sept 2 at 10:00 AM MDT
We meet live every Wednesday for eight weeks. Learn the strategy, ask questions, and build the next piece together.
Graduate into alumni
When the semester ends, the class schedule stops. Your access to the people, strategy calls, guest speakers, events, and Nerd Nights does not.
The semester ends. Renegades keep meeting.
Graduation isn't an expiration date. Alumni stay connected for ongoing strategy, new ideas, new technology, and the kind of conversations that are more useful when everyone already speaks the same marketing language.
Live strategy calls
Join other graduates for ongoing sessions focused on campaigns, marketing problems, numbers, ideas, and what's working now.
Guest speakers
Hear from marketers, operators, technology experts, and other people worth learning from when they have something useful to bring to the room.
Live events
Get access to Renegade live events where alumni can reconnect, learn, compare notes, and build relationships beyond a Zoom square.
Nerd Night
Our official shiny-object night. We throw out the regular schedule and play with the newest tech, AI tools, automations, and other cool stuff we probably shouldn't interrupt class to chase.
Enroll in Renegade Academy.
The September semester is limited to 30 mortgage professionals. Enrollment is $2,500 and includes all eight live classes plus your first year of Renegade CRM. Click below to continue to the secure enrollment page.
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A few quick answers.
Can I keep my current coach or coaching program?
Yes. Renegade Academy is designed to work alongside coaching, Realtor strategies, database programs, accountability, and business planning you already use.
Is the Renegade CRM really included?
Yes. Your first 12 months of the Renegade CRM are included in your first-year membership and your account is activated immediately after enrollment.
What continues after the eight-week semester?
Your Renegade CRM and active-member experience continue with your subscription, including alumni strategy calls, guest speakers, live events, community access, and Nerd Night programming.