The Inner Wealth Podcast

Ep92. Are You Only Running Your Business And Living Life To Have Your Emotional Needs Met?

Mike Kitko

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I started my business to have my own emotional needs met. I was financially scared, and I was trying to solve my money fear through my business. I felt inadequate, and I was trying to feel like someone by having people chase me to work with me. I was seeking safety and feeling important through my business, and those are not healthy reasons to start a business. There's only one awesome reason to launch any business - to serve society and help people. 

The primary elements of this episode are:

  1. People sometimes launch and run businesses to solve internal conflicts, whether the conflict is feeling insecure, inadequate, or insignificant. They sometimes have commission breath, want to feel important, or try to prove themselves to themselves or to others.
  2. Business is about identifying problems that you and your business can solve for society and others, and showing up to serve others. We can create all the wealth we'll ever need by serving others powerfully. 
  3. Trying to have your emotional needs met through your business will make you a consumer, and you'll always feel empty.. By producing more than you consume, you will always feel fulfilled.

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

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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.