The Inner Wealth Podcast

Mike Kitko
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Mike Kitko is the Founder and Creative Director of Inner Wealth Global, a personal and professional development company that helps business owners create aligned wealth, success, freedom, and deep fulfillment—without sacrificing themselves in the process. As an author, speaker, podcaster, and coach Mike guides visionaries and impact-driven entrepreneurs to align their inner world with the life and business they are truly meant to live and create. His work helps you master your mind, energy, and emotions while building intense personal power so that wealth and opportunity flow effortlessly. Through coaching, training, and transformational content, Inner Wealth Global helps business owners break free from unnecessary struggle, trust their path, and create a life deeply aligned with their soul.

  1. 6d ago

    Ep256. Making the Uncomfortable Comfortable: How to Stop Blocking Goodness From Your Life.

    Send me a some feedback! This episode takes the conversation around giving and receiving to a deeper level. Building on last week's exploration of the five ways we block ourselves from receiving, Mike uncovers the emotional reasons behind those blocks and reveals why so many generous, caring, and successful people struggle to receive support, abundance, love, ease, and opportunity.  At the heart of this episode is a powerful realization that emerged while writing Mike's upcoming book, Built to Give. Rebuilt to Receive. The issue is rarely the external circumstance. More often, we block goodness from entering our lives because we're unconsciously trying to avoid certain feelings. Understanding these emotions becomes the key to becoming a better receiver and experiencing a higher quality of life.  Key Takeaways 1. We often block goodness from entering our lives to avoid uncomfortable feelings. The challenge isn't usually receiving itself. It's the emotions that receiving might trigger inside of us.  2. Seven core emotions frequently drive our resistance to receiving. Selfishness, being a burden, judgment, rejection, shame, superiority, and disappointment often sit beneath our unwillingness to receive support, abundance, love, and opportunity.  3. Over-givers often delay permission to receive. Many people spend their lives giving, serving, helping, and supporting others while continuously postponing their own turn to receive.  4. Avoiding emotions keeps them alive. What we resist persists. The path to freedom isn't avoiding uncomfortable emotions but learning how to move into, through, and beyond them.  5. The path to becoming a better receiver is making the uncomfortable comfortable. Growth happens when we willingly feel the emotions we've spent our lives trying to avoid. The more comfortable we become with those feelings, the easier it becomes to receive life fully.  Notable Quotes  "The greatest lie ever told is that it's better to give than receive."  "The reason we block goodness from flowing into our life is to avoid a feeling."  "The wealthiest, happiest, most successful people I know are easy receivers."  "Whatever you resist persists. Whatever you feel heals."  "The way to heal is into the discomfort and through it." Call to Action If this episode resonated with you, spend a few moments reflecting on which of the seven emotions shows up most often in your life. Is it the fear of being selfish? The fear of judgment? The fear of rejection, shame, disappointment, or being a burden? Awareness is the first step. Once you understand what you're trying to avoid, you can begin the process of moving through it instead of organizing your life around it. If you're ready to do this work at a deeper level, join Mike for the upcoming Built to Give, Rebuilt to Receive Workshop on August 28–29 just outside of St. Louis, Missouri, where you'll learn how to identify and release the blocks that keep you from fully receiving life. Click here for details and to register. Questions? Reach out directly: mike@innerwealthglobal.com No assistant. No gatekeeper. Just a real conversation about becoming as skilled at receiving as you already are at giving. Mike's Media: Website: https://www.innerwealthglobal.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikekitko Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mike_kitko Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mikekitko Subscribe to my YouTube: / @mikekitko Music Credit: "What's Left of Me" by Wes Hoffman & Friends

    27 min

  2. Jun 18

    Ep255. Built to Give, Rebuilt to Receive: The 5 Blocks Keeping You From Receiving More in Life.

    Send me a some feedback! This episode explores a powerful realization that emerged while Mike was writing his upcoming book, Built to Give, Rebuilt to Receive. As he worked on a chapter called The Many Ways We Block Ourselves From Receiving, he discovered five major categories where people unconsciously resist the very things they say they want most in life.  At the heart of this conversation is the understanding that most people are excellent givers but uncomfortable receivers. They give easily, support others freely, and work hard to earn and deserve what they want. Yet when life attempts to deliver support, love, abundance, ease, or opportunity, they often block it without realizing it. This episode helps uncover where those blocks may be operating in your own life and how learning to receive may be one of the most important forms of personal growth available to you.  Key Takeaways 1. Many people have been conditioned to give far more easily than they receive. Giving is often celebrated and rewarded, while receiving can trigger feelings of guilt, selfishness, or discomfort. 2. Over-responsibility for others often comes at the expense of responsibility for yourself. When you prioritize everyone else's needs above your own, you block yourself from receiving the life you desire. 3. Unowned desires create hidden resistance. Many people struggle to acknowledge what they truly want because they've been conditioned to believe their wants and needs are selfish. 4. Ease and abundance often feel unsafe to the nervous system. Many people unconsciously believe they must earn, deserve, struggle, or sacrifice before allowing themselves to receive more. 5. Your fullest expression is one of the greatest gifts you can offer the world. When you suppress your voice, your truth, or your authenticity, you block both your impact and your ability to receive the fruits of who you truly are. Notable Quotes  "Giving is not better than receiving. These are equal."  "The world doesn't withhold things from us. The world is just a reflection of who we are."  "You are not a martyr, and you owe no one a depleted version of yourself."  "Life is a team sport."  "Are you willing to be rebuilt to receive as easily as you give?" Call to Action If this episode resonated with you, take a moment to reflect on where you may be unconsciously blocking goodness from entering your life. Which of the five categories stood out most? Responsibility for yourself? Your own desires? Support and care? Ease and abundance? Or your fullest expression? The work of receiving isn't about becoming selfish. It's about recognizing that your needs, desires, dreams, and well-being matter too. As you learn to receive more fully, you'll discover that life becomes less about struggle and more about flow. If you'd like support identifying and releasing your own blocks to receiving, reach out directly. Email Mike: mike@innerwealthglobal.com No assistant. No gatekeeper. Just a real conversation about what's possible when you become as skilled at receiving as you already are at giving. Mike's Media: Website: https://www.innerwealthglobal.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikekitko Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mike_kitko Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mikekitko Subscribe to my YouTube: / @mikekitko Music Credit: "What's Left of Me" by Wes Hoffman & Friends

    26 min

  3. Jun 11

    Ep254. The Art of Receiving: Moving From Scarcity, Struggle, and Attachment to Embodied Creation.

    Send me a some feedback! In this episode, Mike introduces a powerful new framework for understanding the creation process: The Ladder of Desire. After nearly a decade of studying creation, consciousness, and human potential, he explores the emotional and energetic states from which we create our lives—and why the feeling behind our desires may matter more than the desire itself. At the center of this conversation is the understanding that the soul carries the dream, the mind creates the vision, and the body receives the experience. The journey from need, to want, to preference, to vision, and ultimately to anticipation is the process of releasing attachment, building internal certainty, and preparing the nervous system to receive what the soul is calling you toward. Key Takeaways 1. The state you create from determines the experience of creating. Creating from need and lack creates pressure, attachment, and fear. As you move up the Ladder of Desire, you release internal conflict and move toward a place of openness and receptivity. 2. The soul carries the dream, the mind creates it, and the body must be willing to receive it. True creation requires more than a vision. The nervous system must feel safe enough to embody and receive the life you are creating. 3. Most people confuse wants with needs. When we believe external circumstances are required for us to be okay, we create from scarcity rather than from conscious desire. 4. Vision creates the possibility, but anticipation creates embodiment. The highest expression of desire is not hoping something will happen—it is developing the internal certainty that allows you to receive it when it arrives. 5. Self-sabotage is often a nervous system response, not a lack of discipline. The body naturally seeks familiar circumstances. Growth requires teaching the nervous system that new levels of success, love, abundance, and fulfillment are safe to hold. Notable Quotes “The soul carries the dream. The mind creates. The body receives.”“You do not need more things to be okay. You need to stop turning your wants into needs.”“The creation process becomes easier when you release your attachment to the outcome.”“Hope is a wish. Anticipation is knowing it’s on its way.”“Your nervous system’s job is to keep you alive by keeping you in familiar circumstances.”Call to Action Click Here for Mike’s Meditation Bundle Click Here for the YouTube Link: Installing Future You Meditation If this episode resonates with you, spend some time working with the practices that help your body become receptive to the life you are creating. The Installing Future You meditation is designed to help you move from simply seeing your vision in your mind to embodying it within your nervous system. If you’re ready to go deeper into this work and explore how your own patterns around receiving, creation, and embodiment may be impacting your life, reach out to Mike directly. He would love to have a conversation with you about what is possible as you continue expanding your life and circumstances. Email Mike directly: mike@innerwealthglobal.com Mike's Media: Website: https://www.innerwealthglobal.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikekitko Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mike_kitko Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mikekitko Subscribe to my YouTube: / @mikekitko Music Credit: "What's Left of Me" by Wes Hoffman & Friends

    30 min

  4. Jun 4

    Ep253. You Are What You Feel, Until You Choose Higher: Why Your Inner Reality Creates Your Experience.

    Send me a some feedback! In this episode, Mike explores one of the most transformative realizations in personal growth and self-leadership: you do not experience life through your circumstances—you experience life through your emotions. Drawing from his own journey with imposter syndrome, executive leadership, entrepreneurship, and coaching, he reveals how the gap between your inner world and outer world creates unnecessary suffering, even when success, wealth, love, and opportunity are already present. At the heart of this conversation is the understanding that most people aren't actually chasing money, success, relationships, or achievement. They're chasing the emotions they've assigned to those things. The challenge is that no external circumstance can permanently change your internal experience. True transformation happens when you learn to release old emotional patterns, embody new emotional states, and consciously train your nervous system to receive the life you've already created. Key Takeaways 1. The feelings in your body are real, but they are often lying to you. Just because you feel inadequate, unsuccessful, unloved, or insecure doesn't mean those feelings accurately reflect reality. 2. Imposter syndrome is a mismatch between your inner world and your outer world. When your achievements expand but your internal identity doesn't, you continue feeling like a fraud despite evidence of success.  3. Most people don't want the thing—they want the feeling they believe the thing will provide. Money, relationships, business success, travel, and achievement are often emotional pursuits disguised as external goals. 4. Embodiment is allowing yourself to feel now what you've been waiting for circumstances to give you. The body must receive the emotional experience before life begins to feel different. 5. Managing your inner world separately from your external circumstances is the real work. Your business, bank account, relationship status, and achievements do not determine your emotional state unless you allow them to. Notable Quotes  "The feelings in your body are real, but they are lying to you."  "The imposter syndrome comes when your internal world doesn't match the external world."  "You don't want the thing. You want the emotion you've assigned to the thing."  "You only experience yourself as the emotions you're carrying around."  "You don't experience the world as it is. You experience the world as you are." Call to Action If this episode challenged the way you think about success, fulfillment, and personal growth, take a moment to look at what emotions you've been waiting for life to give you. What if peace doesn't require a bigger bank account? What if love doesn't require a different relationship? What if success doesn't require another accomplishment? What if the next level of your life begins by allowing yourself to feel differently today? If you're getting value from The Inner Wealth Podcast, subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen. Every rating, review, and share helps us reach more people around the world who are committed to expanding their life and circumstances from the inside out. Reach out to Mike directly at mike@innerwealthglobal.com to discuss working together to create more in your life. Mike's Media: Website: https://www.innerwealthglobal.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikekitko Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mike_kitko Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mikekitko Subscribe to my YouTube: / @mikekitko Music Credit: "What's Left of Me" by Wes Hoffman & Friends

    27 min

  5. May 28

    Ep252. The Creation Process Refined: Aligning Mind, Body, and Soul to Create Your Life.

    Send me a some feedback! In this episode, Mike revisits the creation process and introduces a powerful refinement that brings it into clearer focus. Moving beyond surface-level thinking, he breaks down how creating your life isn’t just about mindset or vision—it’s about the alignment between your soul, your mind, and your body. Using the framework of a triangle, he explains how each part plays a role in shaping what you experience in the external world. At the core of this conversation is a deeper truth: your external life is a reflection of what’s happening internally. When your soul is clear on what it wants, your mind agrees with that vision, and your body feels safe receiving it, creation becomes natural. But when there’s misalignment—uncertainty in the mind or resistance in the body—what you want stays out of reach. This episode brings clarity to that process and shows where the real work actually lives. Key Takeaways Creation requires alignment between soul, mind, and body. It’s not just about knowing what you want—it’s about aligning every part of you with it. Clarity comes from the soul’s desire to experience something specific. If you don’t know what you want, you can’t create it. Certainty is agreement between your mind and your vision. When your thoughts conflict with your desires, creation stalls. The body must feel safe to receive what you want. Stored fear, anxiety, and past experiences can block what you’re trying to create. Most people focus externally, but the real work is internal. Your life changes when your internal world aligns with what you want to experience. Notable Quotes  “We are not humans having a spiritual experience… we are spirit having a human experience.”  “If you don’t know what you want, you can’t have it.”  “Mindset is agreement between the mind and the heart.”  “The nervous system has one goal… to keep you alive by keeping you in familiar circumstances.”  “When the mind agrees and the body is ready to receive, you will start to see evidence of it showing up in your life.” Call to Action If this episode resonated, it’s an invitation to look inward and get honest about where alignment may be missing. Not just what you want… but whether your mind agrees with it and your body is ready to receive it. If you’re ready to go deeper into this work and bring your internal world into alignment with the life you want to experience, reach out directly to Mike at mike@innerwealthglobal.com. And if you’re getting value from the Inner Wealth Podcast, make sure you’re subscribed, and take a moment to rate and review so we can continue reaching more people who are ready to expand their life and circumstances in alignment. Mike's Media: Website: https://www.innerwealthglobal.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikekitko Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mike_kitko Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mikekitko Subscribe to my YouTube: / @mikekitko Music Credit: "What's Left of Me" by Wes Hoffman & Friends

    29 min

  6. May 21

    Ep251. The Ego’s Strugglicious Grip: The 3 Patterns That Keep You Stuck and Pressurized.

    Send me a some feedback! In this episode, Mike breaks down a deeper and more personal understanding of the ego—not as something to fight, but something to understand. Drawing from real-life experiences of rapid business growth and contraction, he shares how ego inflated during success and took heavy hits during decline, creating unnecessary pressure, shame, and confusion. At the core of this conversation is a simple but powerful realization: the ego is fear-based and designed to keep you alive, but when it leads your life, it creates tension, control, and disconnection. By identifying the three primary ways the ego operates, Mike offers a clear path toward loosening its grip and allowing the soul to take the lead, where fulfillment, clarity, and peace actually exist. Key Takeaways The ego is fear-based and designed for survival. It exists to keep you alive by keeping you in familiar and predictable circumstances. Trying to control everything creates unnecessary pressure. The ego attempts to control both what you can control and what you can only influence, leading to stress and frustration. The ego seeks to control identity and perception. It drives the need to be seen a certain way, shaping behavior around external validation instead of authenticity. Avoiding discomfort prevents growth and evolution. The ego keeps you in familiar environments, even if they limit expansion and fulfillment. As the ego quiets, the soul becomes louder. Real fulfillment comes when you stop letting fear lead and allow your deeper awareness to guide your life. Notable Quotes  “The ego is the fear-based part of your humanity.”  “Control what you can control, influence what you can influence, but never try to control what you only influence.”  “The ego tries to control everything, what it can control and what it cannot control.”  “The louder the role the ego plays in your life, the quieter the soul.”  “If fear is leading the way, so is ego.” Call to Action If this episode resonated, it’s an invitation to start paying attention to where the ego is running the show in your life. Not to fight it—but to understand it, relate to it, and begin loosening its grip. If you’re ready to do that work at a deeper level, reach out directly to Mike at mike@innerwealthglobal.com. And if you’re getting value from the Inner Wealth Podcast, subscribe, rate, and review so we can continue reaching more people who are ready to expand their life and circumstances in alignment. This is the work—evolving in alignment with who you are and the path you’re here to walk. Mike's Media: Website: https://www.innerwealthglobal.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikekitko Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mike_kitko Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mikekitko Subscribe to my YouTube: / @mikekitko Music Credit: "What's Left of Me" by Wes Hoffman & Friends

    30 min

  7. May 14

    Ep250. Celebrating a Milestone: Honoring the Evolution of Life, Business, and Who We’ve Become (with Angie).

    Send me a some feedback! This episode marks a major milestone—Episode 250—and brings a real, unfiltered conversation between Mike and Angie about the journey of building a life, a business, and a relationship over time. What started as a reflection on consistency and commitment quickly turns into a deeper exploration of growth, evolution, and how what once felt exciting or necessary can shift as you expand. At the core of this episode is the understanding that life isn’t meant to stay the same. Whether it’s your business, your relationships, your passions, or even something as simple as travel, everything evolves. And the more you allow yourself to grow without clinging to old versions of what you thought you wanted, the more aligned and fulfilling life becomes. Key Takeaways Consistency creates long-term impact. Most people quit early, but staying consistent—even when it’s not exciting—is what creates something meaningful over time. What once fulfilled you may not fulfill you forever. Growth means allowing your desires, passions, and even your lifestyle to evolve without resistance. Alignment replaces escape. When you build a life you actually enjoy, you stop needing to escape from it through things like travel or distraction. Expansion changes your relationship with everything. From business to travel to relationships, what once felt exciting can shift as you grow into a new version of yourself. Life is meant to evolve—don’t hold it in place. Trying to keep things the same prevents growth; allowing change is what keeps life aligned and fulfilling. Notable Quotes  “The game, this podcast game, is consistency.”  “It’s an expression of my soul and it gives me a platform and an avenue to share my voice in the world.”  “There was nothing to escape from.”  “If you're not allowing yourself to grow, then you're not really understanding the evolutionary purpose of life.”  “Just let everything in your life evolve with you—don’t try to keep anything the same.” Call to Action f this episode resonated, don’t just listen… engage with it. Make sure you’re subscribed to the Inner Wealth Podcast across all platforms, and if you’ve been getting value from these episodes, take a minute to leave a rating and a review. That’s how this message reaches more people who are ready for it. And if you’re in a season where you feel yourself evolving… where you know there’s another level of alignment, clarity, and expansion available to you… Reach out directly to Mike at mike@innerwealthglobal.com or Angie at angie@innerwealthglobal.com This is the work—evolving in alignment with who you are and the path you’re here to walk. Mike's Media: Website: https://www.innerwealthglobal.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikekitko Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mike_kitko Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mikekitko Subscribe to my YouTube: / @mikekitko Music Credit: "What's Left of Me" by Wes Hoffman & Friends

    34 min

  8. May 7

    Ep249. Expanding Your Circumstances: Removing the 5 Blocks That Keep You From Living the Life You’re Meant to Live.

    Send me a some feedback! This episode breaks down one of the most important realizations from nearly a decade of building Inner Wealth Global—everything in your business and life becomes easier when you can clearly articulate the problem you solve. Mike shares how clarity isn’t just a business tool, it’s a life tool, and when it’s missing, everything from marketing to decision-making begins to break down. At the core of this episode is the understanding that expansion doesn’t come from doing more—it comes from removing what’s in the way. Through real client stories and lived experience, Mike reveals the five primary blocks that keep people from experiencing the life they actually want, and how moving through them is what creates aligned growth. Key Takeaways Clarity is the starting point for expansion. If you don’t know what you actually want, you’ll default to what’s familiar and never fully move forward. Belief in possibility shapes your actions. If you don’t believe something is possible for you, you’ll never take the steps required to create it. Self-trust determines your ability to follow through. Even with clarity and possibility, a lack of trust in yourself will keep you stuck. Discomfort is required for growth. Your nervous system resists what’s unfamiliar, but expansion only happens when you move into and through that resistance. Receiving is essential for expansion. If you struggle to receive help, support, or success, your life will stay out of balance no matter how hard you work. Notable Quotes  “If you can't easily and simply articulate the problem that you solve for your ideal client in one simple sentence that's easy to state, and that's easy to understand, then you're going to struggle to market.”  “If you don't know what you want, you can't have them.”  “Is that even possible? No, it's not possible. It's probable. Let's get after it.”  “Your nervous system has one goal and one goal only, and that's to keep you alive.”  “If you can't handle your body being uncomfortable, then you're going to stay stuck in your circumstances.” Call to Action If this episode challenged you to look at what’s actually holding you back… if you can see one of these five blocks showing up in your life… if you’re ready to stop forcing your way forward and start expanding in alignment with who you are… Email Mike directly: mike@innerwealthglobal.com You’ll connect directly with him—no assistant, no gatekeeper—just a real conversation about what becomes possible when you’re ready to expand your life and circumstances. Mike's Media: Website: https://www.innerwealthglobal.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikekitko Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mike_kitko Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mikekitko Subscribe to my YouTube: / @mikekitko Music Credit: "What's Left of Me" by Wes Hoffman & Friends

    34 min
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Mike Kitko is the Founder and Creative Director of Inner Wealth Global, a personal and professional development company that helps business owners create aligned wealth, success, freedom, and deep fulfillment—without sacrificing themselves in the process. As an author, speaker, podcaster, and coach Mike guides visionaries and impact-driven entrepreneurs to align their inner world with the life and business they are truly meant to live and create. His work helps you master your mind, energy, and emotions while building intense personal power so that wealth and opportunity flow effortlessly. Through coaching, training, and transformational content, Inner Wealth Global helps business owners break free from unnecessary struggle, trust their path, and create a life deeply aligned with their soul.

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  • Creator
    Mike Kitko
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    257
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 The Inner Wealth Podcast
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