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Ep216. Four Meditations That Will Rewire Your Nervous System and Your Life.

• Mike Kitko

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In this episode, Mike reflects on a whirlwind few weeks of book launches, live intensives, retreats, speaking events, and deep nervous system rewiring. From St. Louis to Park City, from tears in shadow work to full-body breakthroughs, this is a raw and honest look at what it really means to be in momentum, hold power, and lead people into their next evolution. If you’ve been watching from the sidelines, it’s time to jump in. This is your invitation.

Key Takeaways

  1. Workshops Are Powerful — But Retreats Go Deeper
    When trust is built and safety is established, the nervous system opens — and transformation begins.
  2. Meditation Is the Entry Point to Rewiring Your Reality
    Each practice (body scan, future embodiment, shadow work, and the final journey) rewires your capacity to hold power.
  3. The Nervous System Can’t Hold What It Doesn’t Feel Safe With
    The reason people sabotage wealth, success, and love is because their body can’t safely hold the frequency.
  4. Shadow Work Isn’t About Suffering — It’s About Freedom
    When you feel what you’ve been avoiding, the emotional pressure starts to release and your life starts to shift.
  5. This Is Transformational Work — Not Motivational Hype
    The Inner Wealth path is about changing who you are at your core, not just getting fired up and falling back down.

Notable Quotes

  • “I've never seen so many tears in my life — and that’s because of the safety.”
  • “These two days are an energetic reset.”
  • “If you've never been to my workshop, get your ass to the workshop.”
  • “You're not creating that emotion in your body — you're revealing it.”
  • “This is rebirthing the emotional system, the mental system, the self-concept of who you are.”

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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.

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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. You'll get excited just to wake up. I'll help you create real wealth, success and freedom from the inside out.

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Welcome to the Inner Wealth Podcast, where we learn and choose to live inspired each and every day. And it's been a fun few weeks. And let me back up and talk about all the cool things that have happened in my life and in our business in Inner Wealth Global, because there's been a lot going on and we still have more to do for this year. We're not finished, all right. So back on August 19th, I launched my next book, my brand new book, and it's Inner World, outer World and we had a a launch party that night and we took a bunch of books with us. We took a a good stack of books with us and we sold out during that event and it was. It was frigging awesome and it was a lot of fun and uh, holy cow like that. That event exceeded my expectations. Some of our our closest friends, uh, some family, uh, some of our you know mastermind students, some people that just knew us from the public domain they all came and just shared some time. Angie and Kara did a great, great job of just hosting that event and putting it together. And we had some sponsors we had six awesome sponsors and we served food and drinks and there was a beautiful cake because August 19th was also my birthday and it was a lot of fun and the that was that was Tuesday, august 19th. And then on Friday and Saturday of that same week, we had a workshop and it was an amazing workshop. We had, you know, around 25 people in the room and, uh, I keep my workshops relatively small and relatively intimate because we do some really deep work together and I don't want to in this setting, not yet I don't want a huge crowd, a huge audience just want, you know, a small, little intimate group so that we can go deep and we can go. We can go hard and I'll explain a little bit about that.

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You know, in this, in this episode, but you know, we do some meditation and some mindfulness work and it's a workshop, but it's it's beyond, you know, just talking and writing things down in a workbook. It's not just about teaching, it's. It's there's exercises and there's meditative activity and I lead meditations and it really is a powerful. Powerful event because we get to for people that have never experienced the experienced the work, the deep work that we do in InterWealth Global. That's kind of like our initial, our entry point, but we had a great couple of days. We got a couple more InterWealth Mastermind students to enroll and register from the Choose your Destiny Live Intensive and then not too much longer.

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After just a week or so I flew down to New Orleans and I got to hang out with my good friend, my dear friend, josh Wilson, at his mastermind event and what he put on, he put on an event. It's basically a business acquisitions event and it was called geez a whiz, cash Flow and Cocktails. I almost lost the name of the event, but it was a great event and I just went down there overnight. I flew out on like a Thursday morning and flew back Friday morning but anyway it was a quick 24-hour turn. But I got to connect with some really deep friends of ours and old clients and existing clients in New Orleans. We've got a nice installed base of people that follow us and support us and encourage us and are part of our family that we stay in lockstep with. So that's always a good time.

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And then I flew back and just a couple days later, angie and I flew out to Park City, utah, to host our Inner Wealth Mastermind Retreat to Park City, utah, to to host our interwealth mastermind retreat. And hopefully, hopefully you listened to last week's podcast episode and it was Angie hosted the podcast episode, but she had a guest on and a guest was Cara Dossi. Cara Dossi is our operations assistant. She's amazing and those two, cara and Angie, are like sisters and like they, they look, they act and they they behave in in a sisterly way and it's a lot of fun and they have a lot of fun together. But these two really do host a uh in a, an amazing and magnificent retreat for our mastermind, for our interwealth mastermind students, and Angie and Kara put together the workshop and made sure that we had all of our accommodations taken care of and in our retreat setting, they made sure we had this amazing eight bedroom house, that seat that slept like 19 people and it was nestled up in the mountains of of, you know, the, the Rockies in Utah, and it was an amazing event, holy cow. We had a lot of breakthroughs and in in that retreat we we do some of the same work we do in in the uh, in the workshop, but we do it at a deeper level and I'm going to I'm going to dive into that a little bit, but uh, coming up in October I speak at a uh conference and it says a local St Louis conference called the gateway to freedom and I've spoken there the last two years.

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This will be the third year of its existence and I've spoken there every time. The first year I was the keynote, I closed out the event, and last year I was asked to keynote it again but Angie and I were flying out to the Turks and Caicos on the second day, so we spoke at the end of the VIP day on the first day and that was a lot of fun. So this year I look forward to participating in the event again. In this podcast show notes I'll put the Gateway to Freedom information to make sure that if you're in the St Louis metro area or if you're outside the St Louis metro area and you're looking to come in and get like a full day or two of real estate, investment, education and connection and networking that you can access. That I'll put that in the show notes Gateway to Freedom. Last year we had a speaker, jamil Damji, who closed out the event and it was awesome. So this year I look forward to I believe that I'm the keynote again this year, but we'll see.

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I love starting out, I love kicking off events like that and usually that's my sweet spot. But Rich Groves, the person, the guy that puts on the event, he tells me he likes me to close it out and so I love that too. I just want to support Rich and he always supports me. But also we have coming up starting October 13th. I've got a new, a brand new five week virtual workshop and a couple, two episodes ago I released an episode talking about the five financial archetypes, and those archetypes are the debt dweller, the let's see, I'm struggling to remember the names the debt dweller, the tightrope walker, the money or the margin manager, the stress success and the money monk those five archetypes, the stress success and the money monk those five archetypes.

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And I'm releasing a five-week virtual course called Monkify your Money Game and it's a play on the fact that that highest level of financial archetype is a money monk, and what that means is you have lots of money and lots of wealth and lots of success and lots of material abundance, but you actually enjoy it. And that's the shift from the stressed success to the money monk. And my good friend Brian Schroeder, who's been on this podcast before a couple times, he is a money monk, so he's been my target when I look at what I want to create in my life, I'll look at Brian and see not only does he have the wealth and the abundance and the success, he's got the peace that everyone wants because of the money and the wealth and the success. And I do know a whole lot of people who are in that category of the stress success that they went from not having it to having it and now they've shifted their stress level to not in attaining it but in keeping it, so they're afraid to having it. And now they've shifted their their stress level to not in attaining it but in keeping it, so they're afraid of losing it. And that's the stress success.

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So that's starting October 13th, and on November 14th and 15th I'm holding and hosting my next two day live intensive workshop called choose your destiny. I do this a bit just about quarterly intensive workshop called Choose your Destiny. I do this just about quarterly and it really is a great intro into working with us, working with the InterWealth Global team, getting to meet some mastermind students. There's always mastermind students here, there's always community members there, the InterWealth community, and yeah, come. You know, if you're not familiar with the work or you just want to do some really deep meditative exercises, you know, come and participate in the Choose your Destiny Live Intensive. I'll put all of the, the, the, the links to the Gateway to Freedom, to Modify, yeah, monkify your Money Game and the Choose your Destiny Live Intensive. I'll put all of the links in the show notes so that you can have access to those. And I'd love if you come and jam with us and play with us a little bit. It's a lot of fun.

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But now what I really wanted to talk about, now that I've kind of set up all the activity that we have going on, what I've really been focused on and back in August when we had it was August 22nd and 23rd when we had our Choose your Destiny Live Intensive I put together a path and over the course of two days I built teachings that continued to build on each other and over two days we did a lot of awesome work. But people not only did they learn and from you know, from me and my teachings and and some of the somatic stuff that the somatic I guess you could say intellectual architecture about how your nervous system is capping your wealth and your success, how your nervous system is dictating your quality of life, how your nervous system is responsible for what you have in your life or what you don't have in your life. As I build this intellectual architecture and help you understand that, I also lead and guide four powerful meditations over the course of two days Now in the Choose your Destiny Live Intensive. I can only go so far. It's a room and what I mean by that is it's a room of people. Not everybody knows each other, not everybody understands each other, not everybody trusts each other. It doesn't feel you know, you're just, these are strangers that come together for two days. You could say a collaborative inner wealth mastermind presence in the room is because these are the folks that are doing the work, that understand the work and hopefully, you know, by doing the work they're putting other people at ease to do the work and building a sense of trust and establishing a sense of trust.

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But in these two days I do four meditations and the first meditation I do is called a body scan and all it is is building from the ground up. I take you through a scan of your body and feeling the energy in your body and, from you know, over the course of probably in the workshop, probably 10 to 15 minutes we do, I invite you to let go of all pressure, stress and tension that's inside your body. And the purpose and the reason, the what or the what is the body scan, it's the we're going to touch with your awareness. You're going to touch every part of your body and that's the what and the why is because you can change your internal state, your internal emotional state. You can let go of pressure, stress and tension anytime you want, just by turning your attention inward and intending to rearrange the energy and choose higher. And in the course of this body scan, I help you understand how to do this and I take you know oftentimes this is the first exercise we do and there's a little bit of stress in the room and uncertainty and I walk somebody through a body scan and oftentimes at the end of the body scan, when people are sharing, they're like, wow, I haven't felt this peaceful in a long time.

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And I said, well, who did that? And you know, and I always ask it, you know, do you have more money in your bank account? Do you have a bigger house? Do you have? You know, has your business grown? And the answer is no. But the inside of your body has has shifted, has changed. Has you've rearranged energy and you feel peace. Where you once might have felt some pressure, stress and tension, now you're feeling a sense of peace. So the what is the body scan, the why is so that you can recognize that you are the owner of what's happening in your body and your mind at any given time, very purposeful.

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The second meditation that I do is a future embodiment meditation, and I take you know we do some dreaming and you know you write down on your, on your own, a piece of paper, what kind of your target is and what your vision is for what you want to create in your life. Then I'll put you in this deep meditative state, take you out five, 10 years, you pick the timeline, but I have you see your future and I have you see your health and your wealth and your, your success and and the impact that you have in the world. And I have you see this and I have you visualize it. Then I drop you down into your body so you can feel that new future and the what is the future? Embodiment, meditation. Right, that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to deliver you into your future and your mind and your body so you can see it and so you can feel it, so you can start to get a higher level of clarity around the future that you're looking to create, so that you can start to see it and feel it.

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And the the why is because our nervous system is built for our current level of circumstances and by seeing and feeling higher level circumstances and expanded circumstances, our nervous system begins to expand to allow that new, those new level of circumstances in, because that's what self-sabotage is is. You look to create higher level circumstances, but your nervous system can't handle them. So as soon as you experience those higher level circumstances, your nervous system sabotages them because it doesn't feel safe, doesn't feel familiar, and that's the only thing. Your nervous system sabotages them because it doesn't feel safe, doesn't feel familiar, and that's the only thing your nervous system is trying to deliver into your life is familiarity of safety, or safety of familiarity and abuse anything that's not familiar as unsafe and as dangerous. So by expanding our nervous system before we experience these circumstances, not only will we invite it and allow it in, but we'll allow our body and our mind to hold it at the same time. Okay, and and it brings that exercise brings a lot of clarity into into being.

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And the third exercise is called shadow work. And this is the one that nobody really really enjoys Not, not, not the first time anyway and shadow work I've done lots of episodes on shadow work is getting into. There's something that you're scared of, there's something that you're avoiding, there's a feeling that you don't want to feel. There's a circumstance you don't want to experience. It could be the loss of a loved one, it could be going bankrupt, it could be losing everything, it could be being alone and being lonely. It could be some of these circumstances that you know you've been avoiding your whole life and your whole life is built around this.

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And shadow work is getting into getting into that event in your mind and in your body and starting to feel it, so that we can release the stress and the pressure and attention of all the weight of that in our body. And I like to say that you know, in our body and I, I like to say that you know, in my left hand right now I'm I'm pretending to hold an orange, if you're watching this on video, and in my right hand I've got a knife. And if you stick the knife in the orange and you wiggle the knife around a little bit and you pull the knife out, the juice starts to drip out. And shadow work is the recognition that when you see that experience in your mind that you don't want to experience and you feel it in your body, you're not creating that emotion in your body, you're revealing it. It was already there and all you're doing is learning and allowing to process, learning and allowing your body to process so that there's less of it to build a life around.

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So, as you do shadow work, avoiding outcomes, avoiding lower level outcomes, becomes not as important. You shift from from avoiding bankruptcy to creating wealth, and these two are not the same. The energy of avoiding bankruptcy and creating wealth are not the same. The energy of trying not to be alone and creating an awesome relationship with an aligned soulmate. These are two completely different energies Creating success or impacting the world. To try to have your ego stroked or your ego fed or to feel some level of significance is a lot different energy than just to impact the world. Because you're inspired to impact the world In the former circumstances, that's survival mode. You're looking to rearrange and change an internal conflict instead of live an inspired life. And by doing shadow work we can stop avoiding and start creating. We can stop trying to survive and create.

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And on the fourth exercise I put all these together. We do a body scan, then we do some shadow work. So I deliver you into your shadow, we start to kind of scrape some of that lower level emotion away, and then I deliver you into your future. And now we're going to start to expand the nervous system so that your body can create, can allow and can hold new circumstances. So it's like an energetic reset. These two days are an energetic reset.

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Now we've got another workshop coming up, november 14th and 15th, and if you've never been to my workshop, get your ass to the workshop. If you've never done this work before, come and come and play with me. Right, come in, come and hang out with me and I'll lead you through these things. I've got a meditation bundle on my website. Some of those same meditations were recorded at a workshop or at a retreat and some of those are live in action. But in the Choose your Destiny live intensive you're going to experience that with me leading in real time, live and in person. And if that sounds awesome to you, if you want to come and play again, I'm going to put the link to that. The next Choose your Destiny live intensive November 14th and 15th.

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Now at the retreat. It's a whole different experience. And in this last retreat in Park City, I did the same exact four meditations the same exact four. In fact, there were a good number of brand new Inner Wealth Mastermind students that had never been to a workshop. So I just I repeated the workshop in a retreat setting. But there was a difference. Everybody at this, at the retreat, knew each other, everyone knew each other. So there was already a level of trust, there was already a level of understanding established, there was already a familiarity with each other and there was already safety in the room as soon as we connected and we got there on.

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We got there on on uh, wednesday. We got there on Thursday we had a happy hour. Now I'm lying, let me let me go back. We got there on Wednesday and we had a little happy hour, meet the group, meet and greet, because some people flew in from other parts of the country. We had a little happy hour meet and greet, had some, some food, you know, had some some appetizers, had some drinks, loosened up with each other. And then the next day, thursday, when we hit it, we hit it hard and the trust that was already established in the room allowed everyone to get deeper into those exercises and some of those exercises went from 10 to 15 minutes to 15 to 30 minutes or 20 minutes to 30 minutes. And the exercises, all four of those exercises, the body scan, the future embodiment work, the shadow work, and that, the journey, the final journey, they were all longer and they were all deeper, and especially the shadow work, the shadow work. Literally I've never seen so many tears in my life, and that's because of the safety and that's because of the trust that had already built in the room and been established amongst the people. And when someone was grieving in shadow work and somebody was fearful in shadow work or feeling anxiety or feeling whatever, and they started to crack open, the rest of the room rallied around them to help them feel loved, loved and accepted and appreciated and that just built the bond even more and everybody like, ah man, it was a beautiful, beautiful dance of energy.

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That's the work that we do in the interwealth mastermind. That is the work. When I when I say that is the work, when I say that is the work, the work is going inside of ourselves and rearranging our energy. I often say, if you give me like an hour in front of a room, I'll entertain you. You give me a couple days and I'll train you. And that's what I do in the workshop and a retreat train, treat train. But if you are part of my ecosystem for a long period of time, then you and I will transform your life because by doing this work you reshape and reinvent yourself every single day. This is transformative work. This isn't growth-oriented work. This is rebirthing the emotional system, the mental system, the self-concept of who you are. This is the rearranging of your nervous system so you experience life differently. That is the work of Inner World Global. That is the work that we're here to do and I'm already starting to get people that are, that are reading inner world, outer world that are signing up for.

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Uh, I've had. I've had people read, read inner world, outer world and sign up for monkify your money game. I've had people in a wealth blueprint. There have been people on my website. I offer something called the inner wealth blueprint and it's an astrology report that I've developed that help you understand what your ego, what's shaping your ego, what's shaping your soul, what's your soul is here to, to uh, to to, to experience, you know, the karmic cleanup that you're here to do on you know, during your lifetime and the energy of your vocation and the impact that you're here to make in the world. And that's called your inner wealth blueprint. And just by people reading the inner world, outer world, they're starting to connect to the website and start to be part of my life in these offerings, in these events and in these products. And it's a really exciting time for me, really exciting time for us, because we're reshaping the world.

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Listen, I just wanted to catch up with you If you haven't gone back and listened to last week's episode, which is Angie Kitko and Cara Dossi jamming about Cara's role in our business and Cara actually doing the work, moving through grief, right, doing the work. Actually, she's not just our operations assistant in terms of just, you know, being an admin. She's literally a. She does the work and she participates in everything that we do. And when I was, when we were in park city, I looked over at Karen. She was crying and she was cracking open energetically, just like everybody else. Guys, there's a lot, we have a lot going on, we have a lot to offer. Uh, if any of this sounds interesting and you just want, we have a lot going on, we have a lot to offer.

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If any of this sounds interesting and you just want to have a conversation with me, if you want to have a conversation to see what is next for you and what is best for you to begin working with me or begin working with Interwealth Global, I'd love to have a conversation. My email is very simple Mike at innerwealthglobalcom. Mike at innerwealthglobalcom, and the way to connect with me is always in the show notes. I'd love to have a conversation. If you don't know where to start, I'd love to have a conversation with you to see how we can get started, to see what's best for you and to see how Inner Wealth Global can serve you. It's exciting time for us.

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We've got a lot in the hopper and a lot coming up, and I look forward to working with as many of you as possible, but I just need you to lean in and tell me you're listening and show me your interest. Tell me your interest and I'd love to walk shoulder to shoulder with any and all of you to see how we can make transformation happen in your life, rebirth happen in your life, so you can experience a higher level of wealth, success, happiness, freedom, vitality all of it. Right Impact. That's what we're here for To lessen the impact of fear and anxiety in your life. To understand your purpose and your design at a deeper level and to increase every single circumstance in your life. If understand your purpose and your design at a deeper level, and to increase every single circumstance in your life. If any and all of that sounds good to you, lean in. I'd love to help you. I'm just one email away. If you enjoyed what you heard and you want to learn more, go to wwwinnerwealthglobalcom for more tools and resources.