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Ep207. When More Action Isn’t the Answer, and Inaction Clears the Way — Release, Receive, Repeat.

• Mike Kitko

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In this episode, Mike records from his sacred space — his back patio — where nearly all of Inner Wealth Global was built. He opens up about the creation process, The Drill Method™, and how true success isn't found through hustle, but through internal alignment, emotional sovereignty, and spiritual surrender. This isn’t just theory — it’s a behind-the-scenes look at how Mike navigates real fear, resistance, and expansion using the same tools he teaches his clients.

Key Takeaways

  1. Build Your Life to Support Your Soul
    Design your business to serve your desired lifestyle — not the other way around.
  2. The Creation Process Is Clarity, Certainty, Commitment
    Know what you want, remove resistance, and stay committed until it shows up.
  3. The Drill Method™ Clears Internal Blocks to Certainty
    Let go of fear, doubt, and stored emotion to unlock full-body alignment.
  4. Control What You Can, Surrender What You Can’t
    You can control your mind and body — not outcomes, not people, not timing.
  5. Success is an Inner Game First
    Most people take massive action trying to overcome resistance instead of releasing it.


Notable Quotes

  • “I’ve built a business to support my lifestyle, not a lifestyle to support the business.”
  • “There’s nowhere to hide in entrepreneurship. Every worry, doubt, and fear gets exposed.”
  • “The Drill Method™ is a process for letting go of anything that stands between you and absolute certainty.”
  • “Opportunity showed up as the resistance disappeared.”
  • “Most people are living a life of action to overcome resistance instead of releasing the resistance.”


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


Call to Action

If you’re tired of building success from survival mode and you’re ready to build from clarity, peace, and power…
 Join me at the next Choose Your Destiny Live Intensive on August 22–23 in St. Charles, Missouri.

We’ll do this work together — clarity, certainty, and commitment — and you’ll leave with the Drill Method anchored in your body.

Visit https://www.innerwealthglobal.com for details.
Come home to yourself and create from alignment.


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Mike Kitko is an executive self-mastery coach, speaker and author. He found external success through powerful titles, incomes, and material possessions. He ultimately fell into depression, toxic abuse of alcohol, and the near collapse of his family before he began a journey of internal happiness and success.



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.

Speaker 1:

Welcome to the Inner Wealth Podcast, where we learn and choose to live inspired each and every day. Hey guys, welcome to one of my favorite places in the world. When I'm at home, this is my favorite place to be. It's my back patio and you can't see it if you're on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, but trust me when I say I'm on my couch under my gazebo, on my patio, and we live in St Charles, missouri, so just outside of St Louis, just outside of St Louis. And, man, I am made for the heat. I love hot weather and it's hot today. It's like 95 to 97 degrees somewhere in there and it's humid, and it's like the perfect day for me to be outside on my back patio, enjoying, I guess yeah, just enjoying the outside. I love it.

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Now, when we first moved here, we were surrounded by corn. There was like one or two neighborhoods in this area and there was corn everywhere. And now St Charles is one of the fastest growing counties in the country and now there's houses everywhere. And we still love St Charles and we still love the vibe and we still love the area, the vibe, and we still love the, the area. It's just a little more crowded than when we moved in and you know, you might hear, you might hear the cars going up, going up and down the road that we back up to, and when we moved here there were about five cars a day that would pass through. And now there's now there's five cars uh, you know, every 10 seconds and there's a fire departments. Every once in a while we hear a whiz of a fire engine. So hey, we'll surrender to the flow of life and we'll just allow whatever happens to happen in the environment. But you can also hear birds chirping and there's bunnies running through my yard and there's squirrels on my fence and I see hummingbirds in my yard from time to time, a couple of times a day, and it's just a beauty. A cardinal since we live right outside of St Louis, we have cardinals that fly in the yard. It's awesome, it's just a beautiful place. When we first moved here, my wife was looking outside. She said, holy cow, it's like a Disney movie out there. And it was. It truly was.

Speaker 1:

And I've never done this before from a back patio, never done this before from a back patio, and I wanted to bring you guys to the place that I do my most work and that's right here in this seat. I could say my business was built from my back patio. My business was built, uh, from this place, which is sacred, um to me, sacred to me. I love being at home. I'm a homebody, a natural homebody. I love running a business. I've built a business and I run my business from my back patio so that I can enjoy home while impacting the world. That's what I love. It doesn't mean it's aligned for everybody, so eat the fruit and spit out the seeds. I've done enough work with the soul sciences and astrology and gene keys and human design to know that we're all built differently and the life that I love of ease and of space and no pressure and stress, that's for me. That's according to my design. But you're built differently, so you probably like something else. My wife likes getting out of the house every once in a while to go somewhere to be with people. Uh, that's I'm just not built that way, unless I'm teaching them, that's I'm just not built that way. But this is. I've built a business to support my lifestyle, not a lifestyle to support the business. So, but I wanted to show you where I do all my work. And most of the work that I do is very internal and it's you can say, mindset work, it's heart set work, it's personal development.

Speaker 1:

I was told when I first started my business by my good friend Brian Schroeder. He said being an entrepreneur and running a business is the most spiritual work that you can ever take on. And what he meant by that is there's nowhere to hide. Every worry, doubt, fear pops up, every emotion. You're going to have to feel stuff that you don't want to feel. You're going to have to experience things you'd rather not Most people would rather not experience. There's nowhere to hide. It's eat what you kill and you're going to have to say things you'd rather not say and you just the entrepreneur gets to experience what most people are kind of hiding from in the world, and that's hiding from emotions, hiding from certain feelings, hiding from emotions, hiding from certain feelings, hiding from certain internal states that cause us to be uncomfortable. And for an entrepreneur, there's nowhere to hide, and on this deck I get to do the work to let go of that, and that's using a drill method right Now.

Speaker 1:

Lately, I've been bringing back the creation process. The creation process is very simple. It doesn't mean it's always easy, but it's very simple. There's three steps to the creation process, and that's clarity, certainty and commitment. Getting clear about what it is you want, becoming certain that you can have it and that's an inner game, all right, these are all inner games and then commitment remaining in the power of that intention until it manifests in the world, until it shows up.

Speaker 1:

There's three reasons that people don't have what they want in this lifetime. Number one is because they don't know what they want Oftentimes. Number two is because they're, they feel or they're afraid that they can't have it. Number three is that you don't, you don't stay in the game long enough to receive it right. You, you don't, you're not willing to receive it. Oftentimes I see people get exactly what they want and they, they don't take delivery. All right. So that's commitment is is taking inspired action, remaining patient while it's, while it's manifesting, and then taking, taking receipt when it shows up.

Speaker 1:

Now, this process works. All right, this creation process works. It's worked in my life, it's worked in the lives of people in the interwealth mastermind and the interwealth community. There's one magic part to this and that's that certainty piece. The certainty piece and I call it certainty because it's the, the, the the opposite of certainty is uncertainty. It's fear, it's doubt, it's worry, it's anxiety, it's depression, it's all of these interstates that aren't in a state of alignment and trust and just faith that it's going to show up like unbreakable trust in the, that, the thing that you are looking to create in your life, that it will show up, and that's that unbreakable faith, that unbreakable trust is is called certainty. Okay, you, you know that you can have it and you know, if you stay with it long enough, you will experience it in your lifetime.

Speaker 1:

Now the certainty work is why I built the drill method and why I invented I guess you could say invent why I invented the drill method. And the drill method is a process for letting go of anything that's mentally or emotionally in between especially emotionally, that's between you and absolute certainty that it will show up and that could be, like I said, worried, doubt, fear, anxiety, impatience, insecurity, inadequacy, insignificance, belief that it's not available to you, belief that you're not good enough. All of these things create a lack of certainty and they will keep whatever you want from you away from you. And that's what the drill method's for. Now, when I say do the work, when I do my work, it's right here. This is what I'm talking about During the summer months, during the spring, the summer and the fall, and in the winter I'm not a lover of the cold, so in the winter I'm inside. But the point is is in spring, summer and fall, I'm right here doing the work, and that's the drill method. Right After you get clear about what it is you want, the drill method helps you remove any internal limitation, any internal resistance to having that and experiencing it, to having that and experiencing it Now with the drill method and I've done podcast episodes about this before with the drill method, the D stands for drop into your body.

Speaker 1:

So mental clarity is mental mostly. It does have an emotional component, but you can think about what do you want and it's when you get the strong image of what it is that you want and then you get that full body, yes, that you want to experience that. It's that full body, yes, that means that that vision is worth committing to for you. Okay, clarity is mostly mental, but it does have an emotional component. It's about getting clear and seeing very, very clearly and vividly, exactly in your mind's eye, right here, what it is that you want. Now you can close your eyes, you can understand, you can, you can play with it, you can experience it. But but then when you, when you get to a sense of clarity, you'll feel it in your body, you'll get this fuck, yes, it's, let's go. And that full body, yes, means that that's your body's way of committing to that vision as aligned and as, yeah, aligned, we'll just leave it there, aligned and inspired for you.

Speaker 1:

And when we get that level of clarity, it's time to move on to certainty. And with certainty, we move out of our mind into our body and we start to look for what's in there, that that is in the way of certainty. Now, sometimes you'll have a thought okay, wow, what if I'm not good enough? And the emotional signature of that belief. If that belief, if you hold that belief, then there's an emotional, it's called a samskara, a samskara, a pain pocket, a trauma pocket that's in your body, that has created and that has exposed that belief for you, body that has created and that has exposed that belief for you. So that's why, with the drill method, we move from dropping into our body to recognizing the resistance that's inside, with that belief, with that belief that what if it's not available for me? Or what if it's? What if I can't? What if I'm not good enough? What if? What if I run out of time and everything falls apart. Or you know, if you, if you feel shame for wanting something, if you feel guilty for wanting something, a lot of people please, a lot of people, pleasers in the world are trained to to give, give, give, give, and the thought of receiving creates, creates pockets of shame or guilt, and this is all the stuff that's in the way of certainty that you can have whatever it is you want. So in the drill method, we drop into our body and we recognize the signature of that block, the signature of that limitation, the signature of that belief, the emotional undercurrent of whatever's in the way of us being absolutely certain that we can have it, and we go into the body to recognize where it is what it is and then we amplify it. So most people are trying to create circumstances in their life so that they can avoid the feeling, the emotion that they don't want to feel. And we're going in and we're getting what's in there, that's in the way, and we're going to amplify it so we actually feel it All right and we're going to let it take over our body and then drop into our body.

Speaker 1:

Recognize it, the I stands for, inquire into it. What are you trying to teach me? How did you get there? Why are you there? Where did this come from? What are you trying to show me? What story are you trying to expose? We inquire, we actually build a relationship with this emotion, build a relationship with this belief that's buried in our body. Build a relationship with this thing that's been with us all the time, with this samskara. Build a relationship and start to engage with it, inquire into it, ask it questions, spend some time with it. Don't push it down, don't ignore it, don't escape it. Get into it and start to inquire.

Speaker 1:

And when you start to inquire and then you give it space to talk, give it space to breathe, it will. And the first L stands for let it speak to you. It will speak to you. It'll start telling you why it's there. Did you see that bird just fly across? It'll tell you why it's there. It'll tell you how it got there. It'll show it what, what it's trying to teach you, how it's trying to keep you safe, right, it'll show you these things. But you got to sit with it. You got to give it time to to to nourish or nurture and to breathe and sit with it and it will begin to speak with you, speak to you and if you give it enough time and you understand, you can thank it. Thank you for being with me, thank you for being part of my life, thank you for being part of my body for so long, thank you for protecting me, thank you for speaking to me, thank you for revealing yourself to me.

Speaker 1:

And the last L is to let it go. And this is a physical, physical action. And what we do is we release the energy from our body. And this is where the energy starts to move through us and we start to relieve that samskara. We start to relieve that anxiousness, that anxiety, that belief. We start to let the energy flow through us. Energy moves through our bodies in four directions up, down, in and out and a samskara is a blockage of energy that stopped moving At one point. Energy was moving through you and that samskara got stuck in your body. And now we're, we're, we've dropped into our body, we've recognized that, we've inquired into it, we've let it speak to us, let it reveal itself, and now we're letting it go. We're thanking it and letting it go, and this is what's called the drill method, and if you keep doing that, that the gap to certainty will keep reducing. It'll keep reducing.

Speaker 1:

And this is very spiritual work. This is mental and emotional work, and most people aren't pausing long enough to do the inner work. That both does two things both brings inner harmony and inner peace and ease and acts as a creative force and a creative mechanism in the world. Because the lack of resistance, when the resistance is no longer in your body, that's when the clarity begins to show up and take root in your life and that's when you can move into a receptive state. That's why the process is clarity, certainty and commitment. Getting clear, letting go of the uncertainty and remaining committed to receiving it's internal work. This is the most important work that you could ever do in the world. This is the work that built my business. At the beginning of my business, I wanted 10 clients in 10K and by doing this work, before you know it, within the first year, I had 16 clients in close to 20K recurring revenue, monthly revenue. And it's that clarity, certainty and commitment work that made that happen. Not action. Opportunity showed up as the resistance disappeared.

Speaker 1:

Listen, I'm not the only one teaching this in the world. Dr Joe Dispenza teaches this, eckhart Tolle teaches this, neville Goddard taught this. They teach it in the world. Dr Joe Dispenza teaches this, eckhart Tolle teaches this, neville Goddard taught this. They teach it in different forms. There are so many books that teach the same thing. These are just my words the drill method, the creation process, clarity, certainty, commitment. It's just my approach to it, just my way of teaching it, my way of communicating it. I'm not the only teacher, and I didn't. I might've invented the word, the drill method and that process, but the fact that this spiritual work creates external circumstances as you clear out what's inside of you, the resistance that's inside of you, and get certain about the life that you're looking to experience and create your the lack of internal resistance is what accelerates the materialization of a new reality into your life because of the absence of resistance. But most people are living a life of action to overcome that resistance instead of releasing the resistance. So there's a easier, more aligned, more dignified way of creating what you want in your life.

Speaker 1:

Now listen recently, up to about a year and a half ago, our interwealth mastermind was humming and we had 50 seats filled and our tuition for the interwealth mastermind is $1,000 per month. I asked them for a year commitment to stay in the interwealth mastermind is a thousand dollars per month. I asked them for a year commitment to stay in the interwealth mastermind for a year. And because in some of the containers it gets very, very um confidential and we share some, some sensitive information about our struggles or our challenges or or our finances and and it's a place for really where we become family more than just entrepreneurs doing life together. The retreats the Inner Wealth Mastermind retreats are more like family reunions than anything.

Speaker 1:

But the business was humming and we had 50 seats filled and something everything that was working up to that point just suddenly seemed to stop and I got the opportunity to surrender to the flow of life. And this has happened a few times in my life and a few times in my business where it's almost like things get really, really aligned and then the process that created that stops to work so I can step into another, higher level of creation and of receptivity. And right now our mastermind isn't as powerful and I sit out here on the back deck and my mind. I know what I want, I know the experience that I want to have with the Interwealth Mastermind. I know the experience I want to have with Interwealth Global, the Interwealth Mastermind. I know the experience I want to have with Interwealth Global, and my mind sometimes goes to and my body what if we lose it all?

Speaker 1:

What if nobody joins? What if all of our monthly recurring revenue goes down? What if all of our students go away? What, if, what if, what, if? And my mind goes to that and all it does is rob me of the time freedom that I have right, because we have no immediate needs for finances right now but my mind automatically goes to well, can we assure that the future is going to be okay? And the drill method I anchor back into the clarity that I have. I go inside of my body and with all of the internal angst and anxiety and dis-ease and disharmony that I experience in the mind and the old programming, the old mic programming, saying, well, it got really, really good and now it's all going to go away. Then I get the release on all of that and I get to drill into these emotions and let these emotions go.

Speaker 1:

And, guys, by no means have I arrived. I teach from a complete place of experience, in real time. So I have created something really freaking cool using the creation process and the drill method, but there's no arrival in this game. I am not teaching from a place of having arrived. I'm teaching that just 15 minutes ago, before I started recording this podcast, I was doing some drill work on my next creation. I was doing the drill work on some of the dis-ease that I was feeling inside. I was doing this work from a place of experience, not from theory. Okay, this work works and I just wanna make sure you understand that I am not teaching from a pulpit of infinite success and having attained the unattainable. No, I'm a student just like you guys.

Speaker 1:

Right, I drill constantly and let go emotions. Right, it is when a new chapter is showing up and when we surrender to the flow and learn to surrender to the flow of life, when one chapter in our life ends and another one's being reborn, or being born or being rebirthed when the next chapter's coming, oftentimes there's, for me, there's a gap between the two, and that gap is it's scary, it's frightening, it's fearful, there's insecurity, and that the drill method in that moment is really what helps us anchor back into the feeling of safety that we can have in our body, even though our circumstances aren't where we intend them to be. All right, and I'll, I'll, I want to, as we, as we close this, I want to anchor into uh, control what you can control, which is your mind and your body. Right, the drill method, the creation process. Control what you can control. The drill method, the creation process. Control what you can control. Influence what you can influence. You can influence energy in this world, you can influence some sense of awareness, you can influence certain things, but you cannot never I should say never try to control what you only influence. All right, never try to control what you can only influence. And that's where surrendering to the flow of life comes from.

Speaker 1:

When, in 2016, when I lost my job, of course, I wanted income, but the only thing I could influence was to return back to being a student of life, a student of creation, a student of spirituality, a student of mysticism. I learned how to you know. That's when I read Think and Grow Rich and the science of getting rich and as a man thinketh, and the strangest secret and the secrets of the millionaire mind and be your future self now. And that's where I read all of these books and started to learn the creation process, started experiencing it. Then I started learning to commit to how, to commit to what was only aligned for me, and that's how I've built a life of of time freedom. All right, I don't have the tens of millions of dollars that some of my clients have that I work with, but I say I might not have all the money they have, but nobody has more joy in their life and more, more freedom or more time freedom in their life than I do. Okay, and that's what I wanted most of all not a life of hustle and grind, but a life, life of calm, peace and ease. And that's why I've learned how to use the creation process and the drill method.

Speaker 1:

I've studied human design and gene keys and natal astrology long enough to know that we're all built differently and what I want likely isn't what you want, and what you want likely isn't what I want. The creation process and the drill method will help you create what's perfect and aligned for you. You get to get clear about what that is. Nobody can give you that clarity. All right, and if this has lit you up and you're interested in coming to our next choose your destiny live intensive.

Speaker 1:

The next one's August 22nd and 23rd, in just about a mile from my house. It's going to be a live two day event. The first day we're going to be doing uh, uh, the clarity work to getting clear about what it is you want. Most of the second day will be about the drill method and learning how to drill and practicing the drill method, and then then we'll leave. I'll leave you with how to connect with commitment.

Speaker 1:

All right, uh, august 22nd, 23rd, st Charles, missouri, right outside of St Louis, if you want to come in and do some work with me, I'd lead this not from a place of theory or expertise, but from a place of being a practitioner and a practicer and a student of life. All right, love you guys. Thank you for joining me on my back patio. Uh, probably have to do this again more because I love being out here and recording this instead of going into my, my home studio, just sitting in my favorite place and just jamming. All right, love you guys. Be good and be powerful 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.