Meet Mike Kitko
Mike helps people who know there is more to life get clear about what that “more” actually means—and find the courage, confidence, and willingness to go create it.
His clients come from different backgrounds and different stages of life, but they share something important: they know they’re here to become more, experience more, do more, and have more than their current reality reflects.
For nearly a decade, Mike has helped people uncover the authentic dream, vision, and mission buried within them while recognizing the fears, beliefs, conditioning, and patterns that have kept them playing defense with their lives.
His work is about more than understanding yourself.
It’s about getting clear about the life you actually want, trusting yourself enough to pursue it, and becoming willing to move through the uncertainty and discomfort that come with creating something new.
Because Mike believes there is a reason you know there’s more.
There’s something in you that you came here to experience, create, become, and contribute—and your life is meant to be lived in pursuit of it.
Mike's Story
A Marine Corps veteran and former Fortune 500 executive, Mike spent more than two decades building what looked like a successful life. But underneath the success, he was increasingly disconnected from himself.
In March 2016, after a long and successful run in corporate America, Mike was terminated from his second executive-level position in approximately 20 months. His career wasn’t the only thing unraveling. His marriage was in collapse. His health was disastrous. He was nearly 300 pounds, drinking heavily, emotionally exhausted, and increasingly aware that the life he had created was deeply out of alignment with who he was, what he wanted, and the person he knew he was capable of becoming.
What looked like everything falling apart became the moment Mike finally had to face himself. He began to recognize how much of his life had been built around achievement, responsibility, expectations, fear, and avoiding what he didn’t want rather than getting clear about what he actually did want.
He had been playing defense with his life.
For the first time, Mike began asking different questions. Who am I? What do I actually want? Why am I here? What do I want to experience while I’m alive? What is the dream that has been buried underneath everything I thought I was supposed to be?
The answers didn’t come all at once. Rebuilding was messy, scary, and uncertain. Mike began rebuilding his health, his marriage, his relationship with himself, and his entire vision for his life. He began uncovering the dream and mission that had been buried beneath years of conditioning and expectations.
Then came the harder part: he had to become willing to create it.
That meant moving beyond what was familiar. Trusting himself. Taking risks. Facing uncertainty. Doing things that scared him. And learning to move into and through discomfort instead of allowing discomfort to determine the boundaries of his life.
He started playing offense.
Over time, Mike created a life that looked very different from the one he had left behind. He built work around who he actually is and what he believes he is here to contribute. He rebuilt his health, deepened his marriage and relationships with his daughters, created greater ownership of his time, and developed the freedom to say yes when he means yes and no when he means no.
Most importantly, he stopped trying to live someone else’s version of a successful life and began intentionally creating his own.
As Mike began experiencing more of the life he knew was possible for him, the mission behind his work became clear: he wanted to help other people find and create theirs.
That journey—from playing defense, to discovering the vision buried within him, to finding the courage and willingness to move through the discomfort required to create it—is the foundation of the work Mike shares today.
The Role Mike Plays in Your Life
Mike is not here to tell you what your life should look like or give you his version of the answers.
His role is to help you discover your own.
Mike only wants for you what you want for yourself.
He helps you get clear about who you are, what you genuinely want, and the dream, vision, and mission that are uniquely yours. He helps you recognize where fear, conditioning, expectations, and old patterns may have caused you to play defense or settle for less than what you know is possible.
Mike asks questions that challenge assumptions, uncover blind spots, and help you see yourself and your life differently. He’ll support you when you need support and challenge you when staying comfortable is keeping you from moving forward.
Most importantly, Mike helps you learn to trust yourself—your desires, your intuition, your voice, and your ability to handle the uncertainty and discomfort that come with creating something new.
His goal is not to make you dependent on him or turn you into a version of someone else.
It’s to help you become more fully yourself—and find the courage, confidence, and willingness to create the life that is uniquely yours.
What Working With Mike Feels Like
Working with Mike is a combination of coaching, mentorship, spiritual teaching, and deep, meaningful conversation.
Some conversations focus on business, relationships, leadership, family, or important decisions. Others explore purpose, fulfillment, self-trust, personal power, and the deeper questions of who you are and what you genuinely want from your life.
Mike listens differently. He notices patterns, asks questions you may not have considered, and helps you connect parts of your life that can seem completely unrelated. He helps you understand not only what is happening, but what may be keeping you from moving toward what you want.
Sometimes that means encouragement and support. Sometimes it means being challenged to see something you haven’t wanted to see or do something that feels uncomfortable. Mike isn’t interested in helping you stay comfortable when comfort is keeping you from the life you want.
As you become clearer about who you are and what you want, you begin trusting yourself more. Decisions become easier. Your voice becomes stronger. You become more willing to take chances, make changes, and move toward the experiences you know you want.
The goal isn’t to become someone different. It’s to become more fully yourself—and create a life that reflects it.
