May 1, 2025 • 23 mins
In this episode, Mike explores the spiritual awakening reshaping how we define success, power, and fulfillment. He speaks directly to those who are no longer satisfied chasing the traditional model of wealth and achievement, and who feel a deeper pull rising inside. Through a grounded, real-world lens, Mike introduces the five shifts that signal you're moving into a new paradigm of inner authority, soul-led living, and emotional sovereignty.
Whether you’re already successful on paper or simply craving something more real, this episode will help you feel seen, understood, and activated toward a more authentic path forward.
Key Takeaways
- Sovereignty Begins with Inner Authority
The shift from external validation to inner leadership is the foundation of the new paradigm of success. - Authenticity Over Image
True freedom comes from no longer performing for approval and living aligned in all spaces of your life. - Integrity Over Optics
Living in full alignment with your values—even when it’s not popular—is where real power is reclaimed. - Service Over Selfishness
This new era of leadership is rooted in heart-led contribution, not survival-based accumulation. - Faith Over Fear
Choosing trust, surrender, and expansion over control and scarcity is the key to unlocking soul-led success.
Notable Quotes
- “We’re not humans having a spiritual experience, we’re spirit having a human experience.”
- “The new version of success is emotional mastery.”
- “Success in the new world is feeling successful inside, regardless of what happens outside.”
- “The image that they have in the world becomes meaningless because they choose themselves over image.”
Music Credit: "What's Left of Me" by Wes Hoffman & Friends
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Do you ever wake up feeling like there's something
missing in your life?
Do you ever feel the need toescape your business?
Are you running your life or isyour life running you?
I'm Mike Kitko and I'll helpyou design and create a life so
authentic and aligned with whoyou really are you'll get
excited just to wake up.
I'll help you create realwealth, success and freedom from
the inside out.
(00:23):
Welcome to the Inner WealthPodcast, where we learn and
choose to live inspired each andevery day.
I've been posting a prettyconsistent theme on my social
media platform, specifically,let's say Facebook.
Facebook is like my that's my,I guess my flagship social media
(00:43):
platform.
Specifically, let's sayFacebook.
Facebook is like my that's my,I guess my flagship social media
platform and I basically, Iguess you could say I built my
business on Facebook.
So it's treated me very welland I know there's a lot of
people that love Facebook andthere's a lot of people that
don't love Facebook, butFacebook has treated me really
(01:04):
well.
So, if you ever want to see andI post daily musings, I don't
know sometimes three, four,sometimes even more than that
daily musings on Facebook.
Sometimes I go quiet for acouple of days If I don't have
anything to say, then I don'tsay anything.
But if you want to, if you wantto follow along with my daily
musings, go to Facebook, find myprofile, follow me and jam with
(01:27):
me and interact with me.
I'd love it if you interactedwith me.
And the point that I wasalluding to at the beginning was
lately, across my platforms,I've been posting pretty
regularly about a new world anda new, I guess, ecosystem that's
(01:49):
forming in this world and a newwave, a new culture that's
taken root.
You can call it a new epoch ora new, just the next chapter in
in humanity, and it's notpolitical.
What I'm about to say and whatI'm about to talk about is not
political in the least, althoughpolitics is definitely playing
(02:11):
into it, but it's not politicalat all.
So we're not going to talkabout that here.
But there's a new wave of whatsuccess looks like that I'm
running into on a daily basis,that I'm having more and more
conversations about on a dailybasis, and there's like this,
(02:32):
this tip of spear, uh, I guess,group of people spread, spread
around the world, not not in,you know, in any, I guess,
locale.
The world, not in any, I guesslocale.
But there's people that areopening their eyes and they're
seeing success differently thanthey've ever seen it before.
And also there are people thatstill see success in the same
(02:57):
way.
So this isn't across everybody,but there are a group of, let's
say, spiritual warriors thatare opening their eyes and
they're seeing life differentlyand they're defining success for
themselves much differentlythan ever before and much
differently than most folksliving right now.
(03:18):
Now you're still going to seein the world.
You know when I go through whatthis looks like, going to see
in the world, when I go throughwhat this looks like and I've
got a couple of things that Iwant to share about how you can
tell if you're on the newsuccess side or the old success
side or somewhere in thecontinuum.
But there are still people thatwake up every single day.
(03:41):
They go to work or they go intothe office, or maybe they're
building their business.
They're looking to achievetheir goals.
They're looking to accomplishtheir goals.
They're looking to accumulate,they're looking to buy nicer
things, they're looking to stackcash, they're looking to go on
(04:02):
vacations and buy fine thingsand there's nothing wrong with
any of this, but they do thisall the way up until they die,
and that is what they're after,and that's the definition of
success in their mind is to livea material, wealthy lifestyle.
And look, I love money, I lovematerials, I love being
(04:24):
surrounded by nice things, Ilove living in a nice home, I
love driving nice cars, I lovegoing on great vacations and I
love having cash.
But the point is, for somepeople, that is what life is
about, and it's about the nextgoal, the next accomplishment
and the next comma to add to thebank account.
(04:45):
There's nothing wrong with thisand I'm not being critical of
it, but for some people, that isthe definition of success.
But there's so many peoplebreaking out of that as the sole
definition of success and Iguess, back in 2017, when I
(05:05):
started my business, I wasriding the leading edge of this
because I had tapped intosomething and I'd found
something that was missing mywhole life, and I started
sharing it with other people,really not knowing what I was
doing.
I was just sharing what feltgood.
I was sharing what felt naturaldoing.
(05:25):
I was just sharing what feltgood.
I was sharing what feltnaturally natural and and what
I'm?
What I realized now is I wasevolving into a spiritual leader
in this whole new wave of whatsuccess looks like and how it's
being redefined.
And you know, seven years laterafter I started, or now, eight
years later after I started mybusiness, my business, when I'm
working with a new client,they're not just after wealth
(05:48):
and success.
In most cases, in a lot ofcases, they already have the
wealth and success, but they'restill seeing that something's
missing.
And what I'm saying is they'rewaking up to a whole different
definition of success.
They have the worldly success,but they're looking for
spiritual success.
They're looking for a depth andan understanding of themselves
(06:12):
and life and how to navigatethemselves and life and how to
master themselves and how toflow flow easier and flow more
effortless with life and allowlife to pour into them instead
of them attacking life andalmost like facing life, like
(06:33):
it's hand to hand combat.
And we're graduating.
We have been over the past.
You know decades of the.
Over the last century and aquarter Now.
We moved through the industrialage into the knowledge age and
now we're moving into the wisdomage.
And now we're moving into a newspiritual dimension, a new
spiritual epoch.
That it's just.
(06:54):
We're evolving into a wholelike human 4.0, whatever it is,
whatever that number is, we'reevolving into a different level,
an upgraded level of humanity,a spiritual, super spiritual
version of humanity where werecognize that we're not humans
(07:18):
having a spiritual experience,we're spirit having a human
experience and we live as thespirit having a human experience
and we gamify life.
We don't, we don't attack ordefend in life.
And this new version of humanwhatever number 4.0, 5.0, 6.0,
(07:40):
it doesn't matter whatever thisnew version of human, this new
version of being that's wakingup every day, when, when they're
, when they're ready and whenthey get, start getting those
internal cravings and thoseinternal desires, they, they
(08:01):
want a depth of meaning and theywant to feel something that
they've never truly felt before.
And this takes really goinginward to explore what's in them
that they haven't tapped into.
And it's not just about tappinginto something inside so that
they can create something on theoutside.
It's just tapping into thedepth and the deep-seated
(08:28):
understanding of who we are, whoeach of us is, but who we are
as a species, and getting anunderstanding of what's
happening in our minds, in ourbodies and why we're even, why
we are the only species in theworld that has not just
(08:54):
consciousness but awareness,awareness of who we are.
A fish doesn't know it's a fish.
A dog doesn't know it's a dog.
A tree doesn't know it's a treefish A dog doesn't know it's a
dog.
A tree doesn't know it's a tree.
An elephant doesn't know it'san elephant.
But we know we are human andthat separates us in a lot of
ways and from that awareness.
(09:14):
When we recognize that we havethat awareness that not everyone
does, not everything does, thenwe can understand what exactly
is that awareness, where has itcome from?
We can understand what exactlyis that awareness, where has it
come from?
And what am I doing with thisawareness, the miracle of this
(09:39):
awareness, to really level up,not just for my own sake, but
for the sake of everyone, andhow can I evolve and help others
evolve as well?
And I'm going to go over fivethings that I've recognized, and
there's more.
These are the only five I'mgoing to share in this podcast
episode, but there's five thingsthat these upgraded humans do
differently than the averagehuman that's still stuck, that
(10:03):
still believes, that stillexists, as if the chase for
goals and the chase foraccumulation are all success is
about.
And the first is these upgradedhumans, these upgraded beings.
They choose inner authorityover external approval over
(10:32):
external approval.
Now, I know a lot of folks thathave a lot of success and are on
massive stages and have massiveaudiences and they thrive on
being seen and they thrive onexternal approval, external
validation, external applause.
If you look to Hollywood, ifyou look to show business, if
you look to the entertainmentworld, a lot of those folks
(10:54):
thrive on approval, they thriveon validation.
And when the applause stops,essentially they feel like
they've lost a part ofthemselves, because their
identity, their personalauthority, their personal power,
who they believe they are, wasdeeply rooted in the approval,
(11:14):
the applause, in the acceptance.
And while they were successfulworldly and I'm air quoting
while they were worldlysuccessful for a time period,
when that success stops, so doestheir self-worth, so does their
self-esteem, so does theirfulfillment.
(11:35):
And this new, upgraded versionof humanity, this spiritual
warrior, is choosing innerauthority over external approval
, inner authority, inner purpose, inspiration, inner approval
over external approval.
(11:56):
Because if you approve ofyourself, if you have powerful
authority over yourself,powerful authority over yourself
, if you believe in yourself, ifyou love yourself, then that
external authority comes firstof all.
(12:17):
It doesn't matter at all, itbecomes meaningless.
And when it becomes meaningless, that means it becomes easier
to attain, but you don't need itas a form of correcting or
rearranging anything that'shappening inside of your mind
and body.
Number two is these people arechoosing authenticity over image
(12:39):
.
They stop caring about howpeople see them, they stop
caring about how they look.
And I still know people thatwhen they're in their day-to-day
they dress a certain way, theytalk a certain way, they act a
certain way.
And then when they're under thelights and they're on stage,
(13:02):
then suddenly their costumecomes on and they change who
they are and their brand, theiridentity shifts because of the
location.
And that's when you're choosingimage over authenticity.
Authenticity means justdeciding who to be and going
being it.
It doesn't matter if you go tochurch, it doesn't matter if
(13:23):
you're operating in yourbusiness, it doesn't matter if
you're at home, it doesn'tmatter if you're alone, it
doesn't matter if you'reoperating in your business, it
doesn't matter if you're at home, it doesn't matter if you're
alone, it doesn't matter ifyou're on stage.
Decide who to be and go be it.
And this new, upgraded form ofhumanity, these new upgraded
spiritual warriors, they'rechoosing to figure out what
suits them, what inspires them,what delights them, what makes
(13:48):
them feel good, what makes themfeel powerful, and they choose
that all the time, whethersomebody's looking or not, and
the image that they have in theworld becomes meaningless
because they choose themselvesover image.
Next is integrity over optics.
(14:12):
It's staying in alignment withyour values.
It's choosing your own valuesand staying in alignment with
those, no matter if someoneagrees with you or not.
For years, I've wanted to teachsome of this stuff.
(14:33):
If you go back and you listento probably the last 20, 25
episodes of the Inner WealthPodcast, these episodes are
probably the ones that I've beenwanting to share, to record
over the last couple of years.
But it's like there was a lackof courage and a growing courage
(14:55):
to be able to remain inintegrity, understand what I
stand for and be able to sharethat with the world.
And there could be people thatare stuck in the old world
success paradigm that listen tothe Inner Wealth podcast and go
what the fuck is this?
Who the fuck is this guy?
What is this airy fairy shit,this woo woo shit?
(15:17):
It's not realistic, it's notpractical, it's all fucking
mystical, and there was a timewhere I actually gave a shit
what they thought of me until Idecided and I grew the balls to
step fully into integrity andnot worry about how I appeared
(15:40):
to other people, how my wordssounded to other people.
The agreement that I had withother people integrity over
optics.
Next is this is one that I hadto make a radical shift.
That I did.
I didn't have to, but I did.
I chose to make a radical shiftand it's service over
(16:03):
selfishness.
Nervous over selfishness, Iremember back in 2016, 2017,
when I had no income and I wastrying to figure out what to do
with the rest of my life.
I went back and tried to find ajob.
I went to four or five jobinterviews, came up runner up in
almost all of them, I'm like Ijust need money.
(16:25):
I started reading all theseentrepreneurial books and I
hadn't quite embarked on theentrepreneurial venture yet and
they started talking aboutthere's a great book called the
Go-Giver and I'm like, fuck that, I need some money.
What am I going to?
I'm not going to give somethingto anybody that they haven't
paid for.
And the journey over the lasteight years nine years, can you
(16:49):
believe it's almost a decade?
The journey over the last fewyears the last decade-ish, has
been of leading with the heartinstead of leading with the bank
account Is serving instead ofwaiting for the investment.
Instead of waiting for theinvestment, is giving and being
(17:10):
open to receive but not makingit a requirement to serve
society, to make an impact, togive away knowledge and wisdom
and insight and to inspireothers.
And if you look, I'm working ona new workbook right now that
I'm getting ready to launch overthe next couple of weeks.
I've got a new book coming outin the summer Inner World, outer
(17:34):
World that's coming out.
These are either $0 items thatI'm giving away or low dollar
items that I'm giving away, fullof chock, full of nuggets and
wisdom and insights and justmindsets and heart sets.
On my website I've got freecourses.
I've got free workbooks.
(17:55):
I've got tons and tons of freestuff on my YouTube channel this
podcast is free and I'vestarted choosing service over
selfishness.
Not the brand of healthyselfishness that I teach to
(18:17):
invite it into your life becauseyou want it, but selfishness
from a place of scarcity andshifting from selfishness from a
place of scarcity into servicebased on abundance and guys.
The last, and probably the mostfulfilling, is choosing faith
(18:42):
over fear.
And if you look at most of theworld, especially people stuck
in the old paradigm of success,in the hustle, in the grind, in
the constant building, in theconstant more in the constant
striving for excess that you'llnever, ever touch or you'll just
(19:08):
stash just for the sake ofstashing it, instead of enjoying
life just for the sake ofstashing it instead of enjoying
life.
The difference is a lot of thatold success paradigm came from
insecurity, inadequacy andinsignificance, the fear of
(19:30):
running out or the fear of nothaving, or the fear of losing,
trying to become someone andtrying to prove something to the
world.
And if you listen to the, Iguess the old paradigm teachers
that are always teaching thehustle, that are always teaching
the grind, that are alwaysteaching more, more, more.
It's always about provingyourself.
(19:50):
It's always about proving themwrong.
It's always about provingyourself.
It's always about proving themwrong.
It's always about becomingsomeone in the world.
It's all about making sure youalways have what you need and
it's never about just trustingthat what you need is going to
come to you, trusting that lifewants for you what you want for
yourself, trusting that you'reso valuable that you'll never
(20:13):
run out, feeling so full ofyourself.
You don't need to proveanything to anyone else, knowing
that you're a miracle justbecause you're breathing and
from there surrendering into themiracle that you are and
choosing faith over fear.
So those five again innerauthority over external approval
(20:34):
, authenticity over image,integrity over optics, service
over unhealthy selfishness andfaith over fear.
That's the beginning of theshift from the old world success
model into the new worldsuccess model, world success
(20:57):
model into the new world successmodel.
Now, when I look back at thebody of work that I have over
the last eight or nine years,I've been serving those people,
I've been teaching those people.
I just didn't know I wasteaching a new, upgraded form of
human being that's openingtheir eyes and opening their
hearts to a whole different wayof living and a whole new level
(21:19):
of consciousness.
And that's what this is.
It's a whole new level ofconsciousness.
It's upgrading the insides morethan making it necessary just
to upgrade the external worldthat we live in.
Success in the new world isfeeling successful inside,
(21:43):
regardless of what happensoutside.
Success in the new world isfeeling wealthy inside,
regardless of how much money isin your bank account.
Success in the new world isemotional mastery.
Success in the new world is notmastery.
Success in the new world is notletting circumstances determine
your quality of life and howyou are able to be silent and
(22:06):
still inside and waking up in aplace of peace instead of
pressure.
That is success in the newworld.
And, guys, if that sounds goodto you, then go to my Facebook
page and follow me.
You can email me at mike atinterwealthglobalcom.
I'd love to have a conversationwith you.
(22:27):
Go to my website and put in aform on this podcast.
On the podcast, at the top ofthe show notes, you can see
something that says text me andI'll get a message.
And I've gotten a couple ofthose and I just don't know what
to do with them yet.
I think I'm going to releasespecial episodes answering some
of those questions.
But, guys, if there's any waythat I can serve you, if there's
(22:51):
any way that I can help, ifthere's any way I can support
you to shifting into the newworld of success, and if you're
already getting that internalyearning and you know
something's missing, then you'reready.
You are on the verge of theshift and I'd love to support
you through it.
If you feel that internalyearning, you are a spiritual
(23:13):
warrior.
Welcome to a whole new way ofbeing.
If you enjoyed what you heardand you want to learn more.
Go to wwwinnerwealthglobalcomfor more tools and resources.
You
Do you ever wake up feeling like there's something
missing in your life?
Do you ever feel the need toescape your business?
Are you running your life or isyour life running you?
I'm Mike Kitko and I'll helpyou design and create a life so
authentic and aligned with whoyou really are you'll get
excited just to wake up.
I'll help you create realwealth, success and freedom from
the inside out.
(00:23):
Welcome to the Inner WealthPodcast, where we learn and
choose to live inspired each andevery day.
I've been posting a prettyconsistent theme on my social
media platform, specifically,let's say Facebook.
Facebook is like my that's my,I guess my flagship social media
(00:43):
platform.
Specifically, let's sayFacebook.
Facebook is like my that's my,I guess my flagship social media
platform and I basically, Iguess you could say I built my
business on Facebook.
So it's treated me very welland I know there's a lot of
people that love Facebook andthere's a lot of people that
don't love Facebook, butFacebook has treated me really
(01:04):
well.
So, if you ever want to see andI post daily musings, I don't
know sometimes three, four,sometimes even more than that
daily musings on Facebook.
Sometimes I go quiet for acouple of days If I don't have
anything to say, then I don'tsay anything.
But if you want to, if you wantto follow along with my daily
musings, go to Facebook, find myprofile, follow me and jam with
(01:27):
me and interact with me.
I'd love it if you interactedwith me.
And the point that I wasalluding to at the beginning was
lately, across my platforms,I've been posting pretty
regularly about a new world anda new, I guess, ecosystem that's
(01:49):
forming in this world and a newwave, a new culture that's
taken root.
You can call it a new epoch ora new, just the next chapter in
in humanity, and it's notpolitical.
What I'm about to say and whatI'm about to talk about is not
political in the least, althoughpolitics is definitely playing
(02:11):
into it, but it's not politicalat all.
So we're not going to talkabout that here.
But there's a new wave of whatsuccess looks like that I'm
running into on a daily basis,that I'm having more and more
conversations about on a dailybasis, and there's like this,
(02:32):
this tip of spear, uh, I guess,group of people spread, spread
around the world, not not in,you know, in any, I guess,
locale.
The world, not in any, I guesslocale.
But there's people that areopening their eyes and they're
seeing success differently thanthey've ever seen it before.
And also there are people thatstill see success in the same
(02:57):
way.
So this isn't across everybody,but there are a group of, let's
say, spiritual warriors thatare opening their eyes and
they're seeing life differentlyand they're defining success for
themselves much differentlythan ever before and much
differently than most folksliving right now.
(03:18):
Now you're still going to seein the world.
You know when I go through whatthis looks like, going to see
in the world, when I go throughwhat this looks like and I've
got a couple of things that Iwant to share about how you can
tell if you're on the newsuccess side or the old success
side or somewhere in thecontinuum.
But there are still people thatwake up every single day.
(03:41):
They go to work or they go intothe office, or maybe they're
building their business.
They're looking to achievetheir goals.
They're looking to accomplishtheir goals.
They're looking to accumulate,they're looking to buy nicer
things, they're looking to stackcash, they're looking to go on
(04:02):
vacations and buy fine thingsand there's nothing wrong with
any of this, but they do thisall the way up until they die,
and that is what they're after,and that's the definition of
success in their mind is to livea material, wealthy lifestyle.
And look, I love money, I lovematerials, I love being
(04:24):
surrounded by nice things, Ilove living in a nice home, I
love driving nice cars, I lovegoing on great vacations and I
love having cash.
But the point is, for somepeople, that is what life is
about, and it's about the nextgoal, the next accomplishment
and the next comma to add to thebank account.
(04:45):
There's nothing wrong with thisand I'm not being critical of
it, but for some people, that isthe definition of success.
But there's so many peoplebreaking out of that as the sole
definition of success and Iguess, back in 2017, when I
(05:05):
started my business, I wasriding the leading edge of this
because I had tapped intosomething and I'd found
something that was missing mywhole life, and I started
sharing it with other people,really not knowing what I was
doing.
I was just sharing what feltgood.
I was sharing what felt naturaldoing.
(05:25):
I was just sharing what feltgood.
I was sharing what feltnaturally natural and and what
I'm?
What I realized now is I wasevolving into a spiritual leader
in this whole new wave of whatsuccess looks like and how it's
being redefined.
And you know, seven years laterafter I started, or now, eight
years later after I started mybusiness, my business, when I'm
working with a new client,they're not just after wealth
(05:48):
and success.
In most cases, in a lot ofcases, they already have the
wealth and success, but they'restill seeing that something's
missing.
And what I'm saying is they'rewaking up to a whole different
definition of success.
They have the worldly success,but they're looking for
spiritual success.
They're looking for a depth andan understanding of themselves
(06:12):
and life and how to navigatethemselves and life and how to
master themselves and how toflow flow easier and flow more
effortless with life and allowlife to pour into them instead
of them attacking life andalmost like facing life, like
(06:33):
it's hand to hand combat.
And we're graduating.
We have been over the past.
You know decades of the.
Over the last century and aquarter Now.
We moved through the industrialage into the knowledge age and
now we're moving into the wisdomage.
And now we're moving into a newspiritual dimension, a new
spiritual epoch.
That it's just.
(06:54):
We're evolving into a wholelike human 4.0, whatever it is,
whatever that number is, we'reevolving into a different level,
an upgraded level of humanity,a spiritual, super spiritual
version of humanity where werecognize that we're not humans
(07:18):
having a spiritual experience,we're spirit having a human
experience and we live as thespirit having a human experience
and we gamify life.
We don't, we don't attack ordefend in life.
And this new version of humanwhatever number 4.0, 5.0, 6.0,
(07:40):
it doesn't matter whatever thisnew version of human, this new
version of being that's wakingup every day, when, when they're
, when they're ready and whenthey get, start getting those
internal cravings and thoseinternal desires, they, they
(08:01):
want a depth of meaning and theywant to feel something that
they've never truly felt before.
And this takes really goinginward to explore what's in them
that they haven't tapped into.
And it's not just about tappinginto something inside so that
they can create something on theoutside.
It's just tapping into thedepth and the deep-seated
(08:28):
understanding of who we are, whoeach of us is, but who we are
as a species, and getting anunderstanding of what's
happening in our minds, in ourbodies and why we're even, why
we are the only species in theworld that has not just
(08:54):
consciousness but awareness,awareness of who we are.
A fish doesn't know it's a fish.
A dog doesn't know it's a dog.
A tree doesn't know it's a treefish A dog doesn't know it's a
dog.
A tree doesn't know it's a tree.
An elephant doesn't know it'san elephant.
But we know we are human andthat separates us in a lot of
ways and from that awareness.
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When we recognize that we havethat awareness that not everyone
does, not everything does, thenwe can understand what exactly
is that awareness, where has itcome from?
We can understand what exactlyis that awareness, where has it
come from?
And what am I doing with thisawareness, the miracle of this
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awareness, to really level up,not just for my own sake, but
for the sake of everyone, andhow can I evolve and help others
evolve as well?
And I'm going to go over fivethings that I've recognized, and
there's more.
These are the only five I'mgoing to share in this podcast
episode, but there's five thingsthat these upgraded humans do
differently than the averagehuman that's still stuck, that
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still believes, that stillexists, as if the chase for
goals and the chase foraccumulation are all success is
about.
And the first is these upgradedhumans, these upgraded beings.
They choose inner authorityover external approval over
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external approval.
Now, I know a lot of folks thathave a lot of success and are on
massive stages and have massiveaudiences and they thrive on
being seen and they thrive onexternal approval, external
validation, external applause.
If you look to Hollywood, ifyou look to show business, if
you look to the entertainmentworld, a lot of those folks
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thrive on approval, they thriveon validation.
And when the applause stops,essentially they feel like
they've lost a part ofthemselves, because their
identity, their personalauthority, their personal power,
who they believe they are, wasdeeply rooted in the approval,
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the applause, in the acceptance.
And while they were successfulworldly and I'm air quoting
while they were worldlysuccessful for a time period,
when that success stops, so doestheir self-worth, so does their
self-esteem, so does theirfulfillment.
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And this new, upgraded versionof humanity, this spiritual
warrior, is choosing innerauthority over external approval
, inner authority, inner purpose, inspiration, inner approval
over external approval.
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Because if you approve ofyourself, if you have powerful
authority over yourself,powerful authority over yourself
, if you believe in yourself, ifyou love yourself, then that
external authority comes firstof all.
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It doesn't matter at all, itbecomes meaningless.
And when it becomes meaningless, that means it becomes easier
to attain, but you don't need itas a form of correcting or
rearranging anything that'shappening inside of your mind
and body.
Number two is these people arechoosing authenticity over image
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.
They stop caring about howpeople see them, they stop
caring about how they look.
And I still know people thatwhen they're in their day-to-day
they dress a certain way, theytalk a certain way, they act a
certain way.
And then when they're under thelights and they're on stage,
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then suddenly their costumecomes on and they change who
they are and their brand, theiridentity shifts because of the
location.
And that's when you're choosingimage over authenticity.
Authenticity means justdeciding who to be and going
being it.
It doesn't matter if you go tochurch, it doesn't matter if
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you're operating in yourbusiness, it doesn't matter if
you're at home, it doesn'tmatter if you're alone, it
doesn't matter if you'reoperating in your business, it
doesn't matter if you're at home, it doesn't matter if you're
alone, it doesn't matter ifyou're on stage.
Decide who to be and go be it.
And this new, upgraded form ofhumanity, these new upgraded
spiritual warriors, they'rechoosing to figure out what
suits them, what inspires them,what delights them, what makes
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them feel good, what makes themfeel powerful, and they choose
that all the time, whethersomebody's looking or not, and
the image that they have in theworld becomes meaningless
because they choose themselvesover image.
Next is integrity over optics.
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It's staying in alignment withyour values.
It's choosing your own valuesand staying in alignment with
those, no matter if someoneagrees with you or not.
For years, I've wanted to teachsome of this stuff.
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If you go back and you listento probably the last 20, 25
episodes of the Inner WealthPodcast, these episodes are
probably the ones that I've beenwanting to share, to record
over the last couple of years.
But it's like there was a lackof courage and a growing courage
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to be able to remain inintegrity, understand what I
stand for and be able to sharethat with the world.
And there could be people thatare stuck in the old world
success paradigm that listen tothe Inner Wealth podcast and go
what the fuck is this?
Who the fuck is this guy?
What is this airy fairy shit,this woo woo shit?
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It's not realistic, it's notpractical, it's all fucking
mystical, and there was a timewhere I actually gave a shit
what they thought of me until Idecided and I grew the balls to
step fully into integrity andnot worry about how I appeared
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to other people, how my wordssounded to other people.
The agreement that I had withother people integrity over
optics.
Next is this is one that I hadto make a radical shift.
That I did.
I didn't have to, but I did.
I chose to make a radical shiftand it's service over
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selfishness.
Nervous over selfishness, Iremember back in 2016, 2017,
when I had no income and I wastrying to figure out what to do
with the rest of my life.
I went back and tried to find ajob.
I went to four or five jobinterviews, came up runner up in
almost all of them, I'm like Ijust need money.
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I started reading all theseentrepreneurial books and I
hadn't quite embarked on theentrepreneurial venture yet and
they started talking aboutthere's a great book called the
Go-Giver and I'm like, fuck that, I need some money.
What am I going to?
I'm not going to give somethingto anybody that they haven't
paid for.
And the journey over the lasteight years nine years, can you
(16:49):
believe it's almost a decade?
The journey over the last fewyears the last decade-ish, has
been of leading with the heartinstead of leading with the bank
account Is serving instead ofwaiting for the investment.
Instead of waiting for theinvestment, is giving and being
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open to receive but not makingit a requirement to serve
society, to make an impact, togive away knowledge and wisdom
and insight and to inspireothers.
And if you look, I'm working ona new workbook right now that
I'm getting ready to launch overthe next couple of weeks.
I've got a new book coming outin the summer Inner World, outer
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World that's coming out.
These are either $0 items thatI'm giving away or low dollar
items that I'm giving away, fullof chock, full of nuggets and
wisdom and insights and justmindsets and heart sets.
On my website I've got freecourses.
I've got free workbooks.
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I've got tons and tons of freestuff on my YouTube channel this
podcast is free and I'vestarted choosing service over
selfishness.
Not the brand of healthyselfishness that I teach to
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invite it into your life becauseyou want it, but selfishness
from a place of scarcity andshifting from selfishness from a
place of scarcity into servicebased on abundance and guys.
The last, and probably the mostfulfilling, is choosing faith
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over fear.
And if you look at most of theworld, especially people stuck
in the old paradigm of success,in the hustle, in the grind, in
the constant building, in theconstant more in the constant
striving for excess that you'llnever, ever touch or you'll just
(19:08):
stash just for the sake ofstashing it, instead of enjoying
life just for the sake ofstashing it instead of enjoying
life.
The difference is a lot of thatold success paradigm came from
insecurity, inadequacy andinsignificance, the fear of
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running out or the fear of nothaving, or the fear of losing,
trying to become someone andtrying to prove something to the
world.
And if you listen to the, Iguess the old paradigm teachers
that are always teaching thehustle, that are always teaching
the grind, that are alwaysteaching more, more, more.
It's always about provingyourself.
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It's always about proving themwrong.
It's always about provingyourself.
It's always about proving themwrong.
It's always about becomingsomeone in the world.
It's all about making sure youalways have what you need and
it's never about just trustingthat what you need is going to
come to you, trusting that lifewants for you what you want for
yourself, trusting that you'reso valuable that you'll never
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run out, feeling so full ofyourself.
You don't need to proveanything to anyone else, knowing
that you're a miracle justbecause you're breathing and
from there surrendering into themiracle that you are and
choosing faith over fear.
So those five again innerauthority over external approval
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, authenticity over image,integrity over optics, service
over unhealthy selfishness andfaith over fear.
That's the beginning of theshift from the old world success
model into the new worldsuccess model, world success
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model into the new world successmodel.
Now, when I look back at thebody of work that I have over
the last eight or nine years,I've been serving those people,
I've been teaching those people.
I just didn't know I wasteaching a new, upgraded form of
human being that's openingtheir eyes and opening their
hearts to a whole different wayof living and a whole new level
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of consciousness.
And that's what this is.
It's a whole new level ofconsciousness.
It's upgrading the insides morethan making it necessary just
to upgrade the external worldthat we live in.
Success in the new world isfeeling successful inside,
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regardless of what happensoutside.
Success in the new world isfeeling wealthy inside,
regardless of how much money isin your bank account.
Success in the new world isemotional mastery.
Success in the new world is notmastery.
Success in the new world is notletting circumstances determine
your quality of life and howyou are able to be silent and
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still inside and waking up in aplace of peace instead of
pressure.
That is success in the newworld.
And, guys, if that sounds goodto you, then go to my Facebook
page and follow me.
You can email me at mike atinterwealthglobalcom.
I'd love to have a conversationwith you.
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Go to my website and put in aform on this podcast.
On the podcast, at the top ofthe show notes, you can see
something that says text me andI'll get a message.
And I've gotten a couple ofthose and I just don't know what
to do with them yet.
I think I'm going to releasespecial episodes answering some
of those questions.
But, guys, if there's any waythat I can serve you, if there's
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any way that I can help, ifthere's any way I can support
you to shifting into the newworld of success, and if you're
already getting that internalyearning and you know
something's missing, then you'reready.
You are on the verge of theshift and I'd love to support
you through it.
If you feel that internalyearning, you are a spiritual
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warrior.
Welcome to a whole new way ofbeing.
If you enjoyed what you heardand you want to learn more.
Go to wwwinnerwealthglobalcomfor more tools and resources.
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