The Inner Wealth Podcast
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.
The Inner Wealth Podcast
Ep223. Stop Forcing It — Start Letting Life Work for You.
In this episode, Mike returns to the heartbeat of Inner Wealth — the Creation Process. He walks through the three energetic pillars of manifestation (clarity, certainty, and commitment), and how these apply to every part of life: business, relationships, money, health, and purpose. This is more than a teaching — it’s an invitation to shift from passive wishing to full-body embodiment, and it’s the exact framework that drives transformation inside the Choose Your Destiny Live Intensive.
Key Takeaways
- Clarity Is Power — Most People Just Don’t Know What They Want
Until you can name it, you’ll keep defaulting to what’s familiar or convenient. - Certainty Is a Nervous System Frequency, Not a Thought
You must feel it in your body, not just hope for it in your mind. - Commitment Means Embodiment, Not Effort
You don’t get what you want by force — you get it by becoming a match for it and letting it in. - Resistance Lives in the Body — and It Must Be Cleared
Meditation, shadow work, and somatic tools remove the blocks to receiving. - When Clarity and Certainty Align, Life Delivers With Ease
It's not magic — it’s alignment. And the process works every single time.
Notable Quotes
- “The reason that most people don't have what they want is because they don't know what they want.”
- “Certainty is a feeling in your body. It's a belief, it's a knowing, it's an expectation that the level of clarity will show up.”
- “Impatience is fear. Wherever you're impatient, it's because there's some level of insecurity, inadequacy, or insignificance inside of you.”
- “Commitment is more about receiving than it is creating. It's in receiving more than it is struggling to get it.”
- “In order to get what you want, you need to expect it.”
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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.
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 like killing when I'm helping 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. Welcome to the Inner Wealth Podcast, where we learn and choose to live inspired each and every day. With the next Choose Your Destiny live intensive workshop coming up on November 14th and 15th in uh in my current hometown of St. Charles, Missouri, which is just outside of St. Louis. So, you know, sometimes, and I'm I'm from Baltimore, but my my wife is from Alexandria, Virginia. And sometimes instead of saying Alexandria, Virginia, she just says Washington, D.C. And people, you know, obviously understand that. And it's a lot easier to, you know, to pin pinpoint on a map. So when when some when some people ask where I live, I say St. Louis. But in all actuality, I live in a little town, a little county. Well, not little, it's that's actually a big county, um, north of St. Louis called St. Charles, Missouri. And it's a beautiful, beautiful place. When we moved here, uh, and I live in a little area called Orchard Farm. And uh when we moved here, it was there was corn everywhere and little Midwest corn town, and now it's really evolving into something uh a lot of a lot of suburbia, a lot of uh a lot of sprawl, uh, but it is an economic powerhouse. St. St. Charles County is becoming an economic powerhouse, and we love, although we love the corn and we love being in that farm town, we we do love being part of a uh part of an awesome and growing community of people. So high quality, high, high earning people. It's it's a it's a good place to be. Anyway, we're gonna have the next Choose Your Destiny Live Intensive in St. Charles, Missouri. And in the in the workshop, I teach about uh the creation process. And you know, in in the past, I used to say you can have anything you want in in the world. And you know what? Uh, I did uh maybe an episode or two ago. I said, you know what, I've been lying to you. You can't have anything that you want in the world, you can have anything that you expect, you get anything that you expect. And what I mean by that is you might want something but not expect it, so it's not gonna happen. You you might want something and expect it and you'll receive it. So, and then what I also understood is the level of your expectation is actually the level of what you feel you deserve. So if you feel you deserve a little, you'll expect a little. If you feel you deserve a lot, you'll expect a lot. Just like in corporate America, we used to say, when I when we expect a little of our employees, we'll get it. When we expect a lot of our employees, we'll get it. Either way, they're gonna meet our expectations. So the creation process is very simple, but it's not always easy. And I'm gonna revisit it. I'm gonna talk to you about this because what what I what I love is I love to help people step into a higher quality of life and a higher quality of internal and external freedom. And when we launched our business, Inner Wealth Global, we have three three missions at hand, or actually three goals and three outcomes that we work towards in every training, in every container, in every podcast, in every book, in every blog, in every thing, every email, and three things. Number one is to lessen the grip of fear and anxiety that it has over us. And as we quiet the noise and quiet the control and the assertion that that fear and anxiety has over us, then we can we can start to live bigger lives and we can start to live more free, more internally free lives. Number two is to connect to a deeper, connect deeper in our own unique design and purpose. Everybody, there you're not a you're not a coincidence, you're not a mistake. You are an absolute walking, talking, breathing miracle. You were designed on for a purpose, you are designed on purpose, you are unique. You have a design that contains the seeds of your desires, that contains the seeds of your talents, and also that can contains the seeds of of your goals and your ambitions. And when these three things are aligned, your your truest desires, your most beautiful and natural talents, you will achieve the purpose and the goals that you set out to achieve by putting on a meat suit. And you will experience your life by design. And we work with everyone in our in our containers to try to help understand that, right? Uh, and I've had episodes about soul sciences and icky, and it's all so that we can understand that we're built uniquely. So to live it a life that looks like anybody else or that mirrors anybody else is doing ourselves a great disservice, and we're gonna meet with a lot of resistance, and and we're gonna be going against the flow of life. Number three, number three, outcome is to expand every circumstance in life: health, wealth, success, financial gain, love, all of it to increase the level of all of our circumstances and our overall quality of life. So less in fear, less in the grip of fear and anxiety, step into our deeper into our design and purpose. And number three is to expand our circumstances. And the creation process helps you, it helps you understand how to expand circumstances. And it what the reason I laid out those priorities the way I did, lessen fear and anxiety, uh, step into your design and your purpose and expand circumstances because when number one and two are met, number three is a whole lot easier. A whole lot easier. So the creation process is very simple but not easy. And this is what I teach in in the in the workshop. And then then I start to lay in and layer in things that you know that are going to uh that are going to support the creation process. And the creation process, I call also call them the three C's, clarity, certainty, and commitment. And hopefully, if you've been listening to this podcast long enough or enough episodes, you've heard those three over and over and over, and hopefully you can regurgitate them. Clarity, certainty, and commitment. I'm gonna go over each one and I'm gonna unlock and unpack. And then at the end of this podcast, I'm gonna, if if it sounds good, I'm gonna invite you into uh the Choose Your Destiny Live Intensive. Got it, got some seats left. So it's not a it's not a huge container. It's not a I cap it at around 30 people. I like to keep up, we have it in a smaller room. There's 30 people there. We my team is there, my me, my wife, our operations uh assistant. We've got some of our mastermind students there, but it's a small container, it's powerful, and we talk about the creation process for two full days. All right. I'm gonna unpack each of these and tell you why they're important and what role they play in creation. Number one is clarity. Very, very simple. The the the reason that most people don't have what they want is because they don't know what they want, they haven't connected to it, they haven't, they haven't set an intention, they haven't understood that infinite possibilities exist and they can have so many other options in their lives that they're not exploring because they haven't taken time to really understand what's what they want, the their authentic day, their authentic vocation, their authentic quality of life. They haven't taken time to say, what do I really, really want? And a lot of people are settling for what's coming at them, and not truly setting an intention for a life that fits them, that feels good for them, that envelops them in love and in freedom. And when Angie and I, my wife Angie and I lived like that, all we were doing is it felt like we were just a flag in a wind. We just went wherever the wind blew. And like life took us places that they were dark and they would they weren't aligned for us, and they weren't, they didn't feel good. And I woke up every day and I hated going to work and I hated my job. And I I we Angie and I had a miserable, miserable family experience, and our house was combative and there was no peace, and there was there was just no happiness inside of the the walls of our house because we were just settling for whatever life threw at us, and we didn't understand that we could set an intention and we can set a course to to see and experience life differently. And when we when we sat down nine years ago, coming up on 10 years, when we sat down uh nine years ago and really got clear about the life that we want to live, then we started receiving it and it started it started showing up for us, and breadcrumbs started taking us in that direction, and life unfolded in a beautiful, beautiful way. And that's the power of clarity is that when you have clarity, you open up the opportunity for that, whatever you're clear about, for it to show up. And if you're not clear, you can't have it. And the reason that most people don't have what they want is because they don't know what they want. So that's number one, clarity. All right, everybody knows what they don't want, but very, very few people know exactly what they want. I want a I want a complete control of my calendar. I want complete control of my time, I want complete autonomy in my life. I want to say yes when I want to say yes, I want to say no when I want to say no. I want no obligations that drain my energy. I only want things on my calendar that I draw energy and I don't want a busy calendar and I don't want a busy life. I love freedom. So that's why I built the mastermind instead of having a whole lot of one-on-one clients, because I can have high impact in a very, very small amount of time and I can control the rest of my life. That's that feels good for me because I love having time freedom. And we make good money, really good money comparatively, by understanding what we want to serve, how we want to serve, and what we want to deliver into the world. All right. Clarity. Clarity is step one. Without that, none of the rest of it works. Number two, certainty. Now, some people I I like I like the word certainty because it feels more like it feels more intense, and I'm an intense guy, and my energy is intense. And come spend some time with me, hit the choose your destiny live intense, and you're gonna feel my energy because the it certainty is an intense word, and I love intensity. I I don't I don't love playing small, and I don't love just you know, just uh using using soft words and weak words. I love using really strong, intense, powerful, firm words, and certainty fits that bill. Some people call it faith, some people like talk about trust. To me, certainty just sounds sounds intense. And certainty is a feeling in your body. That's what certainty is. It's it's a belief, it's a it's a knowing, it's the it's an expectation that the the level of clarity, whatever you got clear about, will show up. It's not an if. Now there's a process, and there's you know, I lead meditation in the in the Tutra Destiny live intensive. First, I'll lead some meditation to get start to get clear about what you want, but I also lead meditation to help you understand how to let go of any and all worry, doubt, and fear as it arises. And as you let go of whatever worry, doubt, fear arises, because all those are are it's noise trapped in your nervous system. And by getting clear and getting certain, you get to start letting go of the noise in your nervous system that would that create resistance, first of all, but that convince you that you can have or you won't have what you want. And and this is this increases the level of expectation as you let go of of the uh of the uncertainty, of the worry, of the doubt, of the fear, of the anxiety, of those stories, of those beliefs in you that say it's not available, you can't have it. What if it doesn't happen? You're not good enough, it's not available, you're not worthy to receive it, and all of that noise is built into your nervous system. And we must rebuild your nervous system so that as we let go of all of that noise, a level of certainty starts to set in, and then you're clear and certain, and it's no longer an if it shows up. You get to realize that whatever you get clear about, whatever you can have, infinite possibilities, and there's there's a certain life that you that your soul came here to experience, and the creation process can unlock that for you through you certainty. I know for many years, like there was a for me, and and I still see it, I still it still creeps in, and again, release techniques and meditation and shadow work and clearing out the emotional clutter that's that's in the nervous system, clearing out this these this these pattern interrupts that are in my body, in the nervous system, it it it shifts the entire entire experience that I have in inside of me, inside of my body, inside of my mind, about the availability and the probability of what I want. And it shifts it from possible or impossible to probable to certain as you do the work. Clarity and certainty. And the one that's been on my radar and on my heart, the last few days I've been contemplating, the last one is commitment. And commitment's a little a little more complex than clarity and certainty. And it in a in a a lot of a lot of ways, certainty or uh commitment has been my favorite, but my most challenging. All right. Number one is to take some inspired action, right? Energy energy moves in this world, and energy as when energy moves, then circumstances rearrange themselves. Okay, so energy moves, but you don't need this aggressive, massive, life-sucking, energy-sucking, destructive, stress-filled action in the world. Need some inspired action. Find, you know, you if if you get clear about exactly what it is your soul came here to experience, if you use your authentic talents and gifts, the object of your desire, your clarity will will appear. It will create it will be created. It will people use the word manifest, it will it will materialize. I am I I am an absolute example of that. The life that I'm living right now is 180 from the life that I was living before. And the inspired action when I got clear, and as I became certain about the availability of this life for me in my body, not just in the world, but in my body, because if there's a lot of worry, doubt, and fear, likelihood, the likelihood is it's not going to show up. You're fighting against yourself, like you're fighting against your nervous system. And commitment, the first step in commitment is is taking inspired action. The second is patience. If you give up then and you redirect your clarity or you re-edit your clarity, then you're starting to process over again. This requires patience. The what is your responsibility, but the when is not. And there's a there's if there's uh some type of in in some cases, especially in the entrepreneurial world, there's some instances where impatience is rewarded, impatience is glorified, and impatience is based on fear. That's all it is. Impatience is fear. Wherever you're impatient, it's because there's some level of insecurity, inadequacy, or insignificance inside of you that's trying to get somewhere to relieve those things. Inspired action, followed by patience. And like I said, the what is your responsibility, the when is not, but neither is the how. And this is the one that's tricked me up the most. The how is not up to you. Now when I've gotten these, and we have Angie and I have had some massive things appear in our life that were completely in alignment with exactly what we wanted and exactly what we were clear about. For instance, when we were in Maryland, when we lived in Maryland with our our then couple month-old daughter, we got really clear that we wanted to move outside of Maryland and get away from the family. And a couple days later, I went into to work. I worked in a remote uh satellite uh operation for our our um company in based in Beaverton, Oregon. And a couple days later, we went in and they said they were closing that that that operating system uh operating site and asking for a couple of us to move to Oregon. And they actually asked five of us, and three of us went. And that I did nothing to cause that. I didn't even ask. They asked me to move. And then when we were in Oregon, and we Angie decided she didn't want to live in Oregon for the rest of her life, and our daughters were getting ready to go into middle school. She says, Hey, I wanna I don't want to live in Oregon for the rest of my life. Uh and our girls are getting ready to work, our older daughter's getting ready to go into middle school. If we're gonna move, we need to move soon before they go into middle school. And my phones in my office started literally, uh, seemed like out of nowhere, started lighting up with recruiters calling me to offer me opportunities. And we traveled all over the country to interview and we chose St. Louis, Missouri, and that's what brought us here. Both of these moves were easy, paid for by the company. They took care of us, rolled out the red carpet. It was awesome. And these were easy and effortless, and we we absolutely did never stressed over either of these moves. They were awesome. Things like this have happened so often to us when we just get clear about what we want, and then just like it's almost like backing off, applying no resistance, right? The certainty, the certainty means there's no resistance in the process. But the the reason I'm unpacking this story, these stories, is because with commitment, the last step is receiving, and how it shows up is not your business. It's none of your business. It's your job to get clear about what you want, to let go of any worried, doubt, and fear, anxiety, panic, any of this stuff inside of you that says you can't have it or that it won't show up. Take some inspired action, be patient, and then when it shows up, not if it shows up, when it shows up, take delivery, take receipt. And sometimes the scariest thing is taking receipt because the things that we have wanted and that we've attained and that we've connected with and that showed up in our lives easily that aligned with our desires, they they almost came out of nowhere and like they it was almost like a magical experience. It's almost scary how easy some things show up for us, but then when we try to apply force, then when we try to make shit happen, then when we try to will our way to get what we want, we always apply resistance and we struggle to actually attain the the what we're trying to be, what we're clear about, because we're adding resistance to the mix. And it's the removal of resistance from inside of your body, from inside of your mind. It's the removal of resistance and the allowing that allows it to show up. And my good friend Brian Schroeder, when I when I shared the creation process with him one time, and we were talking through, and you know, we were talking through the creation process and clarity, certainty, and commitment. And when I got to commitment and I talked about action, he said, Mike, you're talking about action too much. Commitment is more about receiving than it is creating, it's about receiving more than it is doing, it's in receiving more than it is struggling to get it. If you struggle to get it, you are adding resistance, you are not helping it along. In order to get what you want, you need to expect it. And inside of the creation process, get clear about what you want, get certain in your body, in your heart, and in your body, feel it in your soul, and then remain committed to the process. And when it shows up, receive it. And today, the reason I was contemplating and interacting with commitment, because I I've got I've set a new intention for the next evolution of the business, and I'm keeping this one to myself. I've got an evolution, I've got a new level of clarity for an evolution of my business. And today I felt my energy, my internal energy, shift from that clarity to a little bit of to a little bit of maybe doubt. And when I felt that, I started to sit with that doubt. And then as I started working the process again, I recommitted to to the commitment. I recommitted to the clarity that I had, and I let go of all the resistance until my body was locked back in on what I wanted instead of what I didn't want. My body was locked back in. I felt it. And if you've ever heard of or followed Abraham Hicks, she calls this the receptive mode. When your body is locked in and riding the same level frequency and in tune with the object of your clarity, then you are in receptive mode. You are you are waiting patiently for it to show up with a certainty that you know it will show up. And this is a state inside of you. Commitment is a state inside of you that I'm gonna lock in on this thing. And whenever the emotion starts to shift to something else, it's letting go of that resistance, letting go of that uncertainty, and shifting back into commitment where you're embodying. I didn't understand that word for a long time, but you're embodying your new circumstance and it feels like you're already living in them. And that is commitment. Guys, I hope this has been helpful. I've got a few seats left for the Choose Your Destiny Live intensive November 14th and 15th from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central Standard Time. If you're interested in this, I'm gonna drop the link in the comments. We had these around quarterly. This is the last one of the year. The last one we had was phenomenal. They keep getting better. I'd love it if you showed up to do this work with me. I lead live meditations and I teach all the theory and all the practical parts that you need to know to understand and understand to make those meditations effective. I lead them actively in that room. They're not recorded, they're straight from my voice. I'd love it if you came to the Choose Your Destiny Live Intensive. Show up with me and let's have some fun. All right. If you're interested, click the registration below, and I'll see you next weekend. 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