95 - From Rock Bottom to Inner Wealth: Mike Kitko on Leadership and Rebuilding Your Life

In this episode of The Co-Host Bros Podcast, Matt Codd and Austin Spitzenberger sit down with Mike Kitko, a recovered Fortune 500 executive leader, former Marine, and founder of Inner Wealth.

Mike shares a raw story of everything collapsing: two high-level executive roles lost, a home that felt like a battlefield, his wife battling pharmaceutical addiction, his own drinking at toxic levels, and a moment where he seriously considered ending his life. From that rock-bottom point, he rebuilt through daily discipline and identity-level change, anchored by the principles in The Slight Edge.

This conversation is about the stuff underneath business: leadership, nervous system regulation, imposter syndrome, and why your “inner world” determines your results, relationships, and ability to scale.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why you “can’t fight a war on two fronts” (home and work)
• How sobriety, reading, meditation, coaching, and routines became the turning point
• The leadership shift of fixing yourself first instead of trying to fix everyone else
• The difference between chasing success and building capacity for success
• Mike’s take on imposter syndrome as nervous system dysregulation and old identity
• What it means to lead teams at a world-class level while keeping the wheels on at home

Mike also shares about his work through Inner Wealth Mastermind, and his books The Imposter in Charge and Inner World Outer World.

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