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Ep190. Unlocking Your Creation Process: Why Some People Struggle and Others Thrive.

• Mike Kitko

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In this episode, Mike unveils a transformative late-night revelation—a five-tiered pyramid he calls "The Foundations"—that redefines his signature creation process of clarity, certainty, and commitment. Drawing from eight years of teaching personal power and sovereignty, he introduces four essential layers beneath the surface: the willingness to receive, self-love, trust, and a deep sense of significance. With raw vulnerability, Mike shares his evolution from self-loathing to embracing his worth, blending personal anecdotes with universal insights. He invites listeners to join his upcoming Winning the Inner Game of Wealth virtual intensive, starting April 14, 2025, where he’ll guide participants through these foundational elements to align inner strength with outer success.

Key Takeaways

  1. Creation Rests on Inner Foundations
    Clarity, certainty, and commitment thrive when built on a willingness to receive, self-love, trust, and a sense of significance.
  2. Receiving Starts with Worthiness
    You don’t earn your desires through struggle—openness to receive flows from knowing you’re already enough.
  3. Self-Love Fuels Effortless Action
    Radical self-love dissolves the need to prove yourself, unlocking ease in the creation process.
  4. Trust Transforms Perspective
    Trusting life, yourself, and the universe turns every challenge into a step toward growth.
  5. Significance Is Your Birthright
    You’re a miracle—embracing your inherent worth aligns your inner world with the life you want.

Notable Quotes

  • “Most artists don’t take responsibility for their work because the work comes through them. It doesn’t come from them.”
  • “You go into the creation process knowing that you’ve already earned it and deserved it… because you’re breathing.”
  • “There’s no glory in hating yourself. There’s no credit for hating yourself. And you don’t owe self-hatred to anyone.”
  • “Everything that happens in your life is either growing you or preparing you for your destiny.”
  • “You are the most significant person on the face of the planet, just like everyone else… You are a walking, talking, breathing, fucking miracle.”


Music Credit: "What's Left of Me" by Wes Hoffman & Friends

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Speaker 1:

Do you ever wake up feeling like there's something missing in your life? Do you ever feel the need to escape your business? Are you running your life or is your life running you? I'm Mike Kitko and I'll help you design and create a life so authentic and aligned with who you really are that you'll get excited just to wake up. I'll help you create real wealth, success and freedom from the inside out. Welcome to the Inner Wealth Podcast, where we learn and choose to live inspired each and every day.

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I'm always looking for a new way to take sometimes the same concepts that I've taught for the last eight years the internal work, the personal power, personal authority, personal sovereignty, your ability to feel extremely powerful inside and bring a more confident, bring a more trusting, bring a more courageous person into the world. And that requires leveling up and upgrading from the the world. And that requires, like, leveling up and upgrading from the inside out. But that's basically what I've taught for the last eight years, but I'm always looking for a new twist, a new way to share it or a new way to shape it so I can share it and so that it sticks and it gets like people understand it and they step into a higher state, of just an upgraded sense of self. How about that? An updated, upgraded identity and sovereignty? Okay, so, in the middle of the night I was woken up about a couple of weeks ago it was probably about a month ago now I was woken up in the middle of the night and I had this vision in my head and it happens to me a lot. I get you can call them downloads where just out of nowhere, something will pop in and I used to take, I used to take credit for it, like look what I developed. But when these things just pop into your awareness, I didn't develop it. And you know most artists you know, like John Lennon would always say this Most artists don't take responsibility for their work because the work comes through them, it doesn't come from them. And I know this sounds like some esoteric, you know nonsense, but it's true. It's true a teacher and an artist. But we, we create what, what is inspired in us, in the inspiration, the, the spirit within it. Just it comes in. We don't necessarily always need to create it or or shape it, it's just sometimes it just pops in and and it's like here share this with the world. And that's exactly what happened in this case and it was very, very crystal clear. It was a pyramid and I've always I've taught.

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Over the last couple of years I've taught the creation process and if you've listened to this podcast for any period of time, you understand the three C's clarity, certainty and commitment. Getting really, really clear about what you want, becoming super hyper certain that you can have whatever you want, and then taking inspired action, remaining patient and then receiving when it comes in. And I've taught this and some people get benefit from it. Some people use it and they're like oh, that makes sense. My man, josh Wilson, in New Orleans. We were hanging out and he's come to my workshop and I've taught on his stages and when I shared this with him he goes that's it, got it, that makes sense. And it's something he's always used. It's not like I taught him something that now made him more powerful. He just understood what he had been doing the whole time. And clarity, certainty and commitment right, that's the creation process. You can create anything you want in your life if you apply clarity, certainty and commitment.

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Now I've got on my website interwealthglobalcom. I've gota free video course called Choose your Destiny, and that's exactly what that's about. It teaches the creation process. In my workshop Choose your Destiny intensive, live intensive workshop I teach the creation process. Now there's so much more that I get to in the workshop and that's why it's really cool the creation process. In the video course it touches on each of the concepts, but in the workshop we really apply the work and I show you not just how to, not just the concept of being certain and becoming certain, but we actually do the work to become more certain. So, anyway, if you ever get a chance, come to one of my Choose your Destiny Vision Intensives. We've got another one coming up at the end of August 2025 in St Louis, missouri. But some people they understand the creation process, I teach it, they apply it and they don't necessarily get any results and I'm always looking for a way to help.

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And in this download, in this flash that I got in the middle of the night, I suddenly understood why, and in this episode we're going to unpack and I'm going to dive deeper into the kind of work under the surface, the inside work that needs to be done for the creation process to work. So if you've ever seen a duck like just swimming across the pond, you've got the duck that looks really, really calm on the surface but underneath the water the duck's fins are just going crazy and it's just like chaos. But it looks graceful up top. Well, the inner work that's required to make the creation process, it's like it's the flappers that make the creation process like effective, with ease, all right, and in this episode I want to unpack this download. It's a flash I had was a pyramid and it was like there were five elements of the pyramid and I called this the foundations. All right.

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Now I want to also suggest and make you aware of on April 14th 2025, I intend to teach this in a four-week virtual training container. Virtual training container it's virtual. We'll meet four weeks, two sessions per week. It's going to be called Winning the Inner Game of Wealth and it's a virtual intensive where I'll share each of the not the creation process. We'll touch on the creation process, but I'm going to teach each of the four foundational concepts of the creation process and we'll do that week by week. It's going to be really awesome. I've done these virtual containers before a couple of them over the last 12 months and they're really, really powerful and they're a lot of fun and we really like over a short period of time, click as a community, but in this foundational pyramid, at the very top.

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Now, if you go to my YouTube channel, maybe subscribe on my YouTube channel. I intend to take this video this week because the video version of this podcast episode shows up on YouTube while the audio shows up across all the podcasting, the audio podcasting platform. So if you want to see the visual and it's very rudimentary but if you want to see the visual of the foundations, go to my YouTube channel and look up this week's episode. All right, this episode, and you'll actually see the pyramid. All right, can't show it on the audio, obviously, but I'm going to describe it At the very top of the creation process or at the very top of the pyramid.

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A five-tiered pyramid is the creation process, creation process, clarity, certainty, commitment. We just talked about that. I'm not going to go back into that. If you want to go and grab that video course, you can get started on that. But underneath of the creation process, underneath, is the first foundation of the creation process and it's the willingness and the ability to receive. Now, in the creation process, the last step is commitment and it's taking inspired action, being patient in the process and being willing to receive.

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I've struggled during the course of my life to receive and I've done full podcast episodes about just that, the willingness and the ability to receive. It's almost like in my life it always felt like I never earned or deserved something. And if the only way I should say that I could feel like I earned or deserved something was for it to be hard, for some extreme sacrifice that I made and for almost punishment and punishing myself, and then, after a certain level of punishment and self-sacrifice and harshness and stress and toil and torment that I inflicted upon myself, then I would finally be willing to feel like I deserved something and that I had earned it. So when you feel, when we feel, and the foundational piece, the underlying, you know you got the creation process and right under that is the ability to receive. The willingness and the ability to receive is the I guess you can say the expanded description of that.

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But when you are ready to receive, when you are open to receive in the creation process, you don't go into it and be ready to receive. When you do the work. You go into the work ready to receive, you go into the work with your heart open to receive. And what does that mean? It means you feel worthy. It means you feel deserving. It means you feel like you've already earned it. It means you feel like you've already deserve it. You're not doing the work as an act of feeling like you deserve or earn it. You go and do the work to materialize it, knowing that who you are and the fact that you're breathing and we're going to get into some of this in a little bit but the fact that you're breathing means that you've already earned it and deserve it. It's a play on the ability and willingness and the ability to receive. You don't go into the process trying to prove that you earned or deserve it. You go into the creation process knowing that you've already earned it and deserved it. You earned it and deserve it because you're breathing and the inspired action that you take, the work that you do, the intention that you set isn't to earn or deserve, but to receive, or deserve but to receive but to materialize, not to earn it or deserve it. It's subtle If you feel like you have to earn something or deserve it, then you're not willing to receive. And I've done like I said. I've done full podcast episodes on this.

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Somebody gives you a compliment and you. It makes you uncomfortable and you kind of push it away. Or somebody tries to give you a gift, or somebody tries to help you and you don't want help, or you don't feel like you don't, you feel like you can't ask for help. Or you feel like you're a burden in the world. Or you feel like you're you know, you're just, you're just making somebody else's life harder because you exist. This is an inability and a will unwillingness to receive what you want. It's a. It's a sense of like, low self-worth and low, low self. Receive what you want. It's a sense of low self-worth and low self-esteem. You're trying to prove something to yourself, you're trying to prove something to somebody else. That means you're not willing to receive yet.

Speaker 1:

And the foundation of the creation process, the first foundation, is to go into the creation process already having earned or deserve what you want, because you are a miracle and you're going to hear that M word a little bit later, okay, so the first foundation of the creation process is the willingness and the ability to receive. Underneath of that, the middle, you could say, out of the five, the middle foundation, the middle element, the middle level, is self-love. Sitting on a foundation of self-love, we allow ourselves to go into the creation process already feeling like we've earned it or deserve it, because we love ourselves. And when we love, when we fully love ourselves, we know we earned, we've already earned or deserve whatever we want and we open ourselves to receive. And then when we demonstrate and execute the creation process, it's to materialize, not to earn or deserve, and we're not trying to prove ourself or prove anything to somebody else.

Speaker 1:

Self-love is required like infinite, unconditional, powerful self-love is required in order to just be always open and willing to receive. And what I've in my work with, sometimes, people that struggle to get traction with wealth and success or that struggle with happiness or struggle to materialize what they want. With people that struggle, they don't really value themselves as absolutely as they can. They don't feel as worthy, they don't feel as loving, they don't feel as loved. So when they don't fully love themselves and I know it sounds woo, but when they don't love themselves then their heart is closed and they're not willing to receive because they don't feel like they're worth it or they deserve it or they've earned it. Because self-love is required to be able to fully embrace an ability and willingness to receive. So, at the top of the pyramid, you've got the creation process. Below that you've got the willingness and the ability to receive, and below that you've got radical, absolute self-love.

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When I first started this self-development journey, my first coach asked me to go in front of a mirror and to say, and just to look myself in the eyes and say I love you. And I couldn't even spit out the words, it's like tears just welled up in my eyes and I started crying. I hated the person in the mirror. I couldn't stand the. I started crying. I hated the person in the mirror. I couldn't stand the person I was. I was so full of shame, I was so full of guilt, I was so full of self-hatred, I was so full of self-loathing. And it's not because of anything that I did, it's because I couldn't stand who I was, because I didn't love the person in the mirror.

Speaker 1:

And when you, when you don't love the person in the mirror, everything else in the world's harder, because you don't feel valuable, you don't feel worthy, you don't feel like you deserve anything, you don't feel like you've earned it, you feel like there's somewhere to get to in order to being open and willing to receive. And then, if you're not open and willing to receive, if your heart's not open and you're not willing and able to receive, then the creation process is ineffective for you. The top is the creation process. The second tier, second from the top, is the willingness and the ability to receive, and below that is self-love radical, absolute self-love. There's no glory in hating yourself, there's no credit for hating yourself and you don't owe self-hatred to anyone.

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And if you look at eight years later, nine years later, after I started this work, I sure do love me, some me. I love the work that I do. I love the impact that I make. I love the value that I give the world. I love the love I give. I love the love I receive. I love me because it sure is fun to be my Ko.

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I can't always say that that was the case. That's what self-love sounds like. It's not arrogance, it's just an unshamed love for myself. Why would I ever hate myself? Sounds foolish to me.

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Below, self-love is just a radical trust in life, a radical trust in ourself, a radical trust in God, a trust in the universe, a trust that we are not a coincidence and we're not a mistake. We are absolutely on time and on purpose, and every single thing in the world. Everything that happens to you is leveling you up and preparing you for the next upgrade, preparing you for evolutionary growth, preparing you for the next challenge, preparing you for the next comma, the next zero, everything in that happens in your life. There's no coincidence, coincidences and there's no mistakes. Everything that happens in your life is either it's growing you and preparing you for your destiny, everything. And you can think and you can feel that you've, like erred or made mistakes, or you've sinned, or that you are shameful or you are guilty. But all that saying is that I don't trust God, I don't trust life, I don't trust the universe and I don't trust myself.

Speaker 1:

And if you don't trust, like, if you don't unconditionally trust God, life, universe, yourself, then your level of self-love is going to be really, really low. And if you're, if, if you could, because you're not going to value yourself and if your level of self-love is low, your willingness and the ability to receive is going to be low. And if your willingness and self-love is low, your willingness and the ability to receive is going to be low. And if your willingness and ability to receive is low, then the creation process is going to be a little bit struggle-icious. For you, at the top is the creation process, then you've got the willingness and the ability to receive, then you've got self-love and below that, you've got trust. And if you're watching this on video, you're going to see all these and I don't need to repeat Now.

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The base of all of this remember up top, when I said the M word, the miracle word, the base and the foundation of this entire pyramid is significance. You are the most and I'm speaking to you, mr or Ms Listener. Speaking to you, mr or Ms listener, you are the most significant person on the face of the planet, just like everyone else. We are all equals. If you feel like somebody is more significant than you, if you feel less significant, if you feel more significant than somebody else, if you feel that somebody is less significant than you, you are coming from a place of inadequacy and that means that you do not feel significant.

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There was a one in 400 trillion chance and I think that's pretty low. There was a one in 400 trillion chance that you would be born. And here you are. You are the strongest sperm that was in your dad at the time. You are like the odds that you were going to be here, that you were going to be born, are so improbable and so impractical. They are so astronomical the odds are actually small. They're so improbable that the fact that you are even here listening to this is an absolute fucking miracle.

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And combine that with the fact that you are on a big rock, spinning a thousand miles an hour, hurling 66,000 miles an hour through space, flying around a ball of gas is 20 million degrees at the center that the water that you need to survive falls out of the sky. The food that you need to grow or that you need to survive grows out of the ground, and the oxygen that you need to grow or that you need to survive grows out of the ground. And the oxygen that you need is all around you. And you need to do nothing to make the water fall out of the sky, nothing to make the food grow, and nothing maybe dig a hole and nothing to earn or deserve the oxygen that you get to breathe. That is the only thing that you require with each and every second of your life.

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The thing that is most valuable in your life is oxygen, because without it you can't survive for more than a minute and it's the only thing that you need constantly, and it's free and it's all around you and you don't need to earn it. You don't need to deserve it, it's provided for you. The most valuable thing in your life is infinite, and you don't have to work for it, because you are a miracle and just the fact that you're here is a pure, absolute work of God. Absolute work of God. Whatever that God looks like for you, you are the most significant person on the face of the planet, just like me, just like my wife, just like my kids, just like your family, just like your friends, just like the person who's earned and achieved everything, just like the person who's earned and achieved nothing. The person who's earned and achieved everything, just like the person who's earned and achieved nothing. We are all equally significant together, all 8 billion of us.

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Every single life, every single life form on this planet is significant because we are all walking, talking, breathing miracles. And when you fully feel significant and like the miracle that you really are, then you'll allow yourself to trust God and trust life and trust the universe and trust yourself. And when you develop that high and heightened level of trust, then you'll open up your heart to absolutely fall head over heels in love with yourself. And when you do, your heart will swing open and you'll absolutely be open and willing and able to receive anything you want without needing to feel like you've earned it or deserve it, just because you're a walking talking, breathing fucking miracle. Because you're a walking talking, breathing fucking miracle and from that place, when you get clear about what you want, when you become internally certain that you can have anything you want, when you commit and take inspired action you remain patient and then, when it does show up, you finally do take receipt You'll realize you can have anything you want in this lifetime. You'll realize you can have anything you want in this lifetime. But if those four pieces on the bottom aren't there to support the creation process, then the creation process is going to be more struggle-icious for you than it needs to be.

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On April 14th I'm launching the Winning, the Inner Game of Wealth four-week virtual intensive and we're going to cover in week one, we're going to cover the willingness and the ability to receive. In week two, we're going to cover self-love. In week three, we're going to cover trust and in week four, we're going to cover significance. We're going to walk through each of these Guys, I would love it if you would consider I'm going to put in the show notes. I'm going to put the link to these programs or to this program. I would love it if you considered going in and reading the description and if you know anybody that would be interested in this, maybe have them listen to this podcast episode but then also share the link with them. If you are interested, I would love to answer any questions for you. You can email me at mike at interwealthglobalcom. If you're just ready to go and you're just ready to register, then register using the link that I'm providing in the show notes and I will see you on April 14th.

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But this is so much more than just the creation process. It's so much more. If the internal you isn't personally powerful, if you don't have extreme personal authority, if you don't have extreme personal sovereignty, then there's going to be a depleted version of you that tries to employ the creation process and you're going to see that it just requires a whole lot more effort, a whole lot more stress, a whole lot more struggle, and all I'm trying to do is help you do it in a more easy, more effortless way to have whatever you want, because you know what you want and I'm telling you you deserve what you want, not because of what you do, but because of who you are On April 14th. I'd love to help you walk towards that. Guys, thanks for hanging with me on this episode. I love you all and I'll see you next week. If you enjoyed what you heard and you want to learn more, go to wwwinnerwealthglobalcom for more tools and resources.