Ep206: The Realest Episode Yet — Loss, Love, and Letting Go with Mike and Angie.

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In this episode, Mike and Angie open up about the heartbreaking and sudden loss of their beloved cat, Nova. With raw honesty, they share how this grief became a living, breathing application of the Drill Method™, offering listeners a deeply vulnerable example of emotional mastery in action. Through tears, stories, and soul-level truths, this episode explores how to process real loss, honor love, and release the pain that’s been waiting inside us all along.

Key Takeaways

1. Grief Is Not the Enemy — It's a Portal
   Allowing yourself to feel loss is how you release what’s been buried and move toward peace.
2. The Body Remembers Everything
   Unprocessed emotions store in your nervous system until life gives you a chance to release them.
3. Emotional Mastery Isn’t Avoidance — It’s Intimacy
   You don’t escape pain by ignoring it. You dissolve it by leaning all the way in.
4. The Drill Method™ Was Made for Moments Like This
   Dropping in, feeling fully, and letting go is how grief becomes light again.
5. Love Leaves a Legacy
   Grief is just love without a place to go… until we learn to transmute it back into presence and purpose.

Notable Quotes

• “Nova’s death didn’t create the grief we’re feeling. It just revealed it.”
• “You’re not creating it by getting into it… you’re exhuming it.”
• “Grief is like love that’s missing a piece.”
• “The emotion you’re feeling is the energy that’s been stored… waiting to be released.”
• “Fighting reality never wins — reality always wins. And resistance only causes suffering.”

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

Call to Action

This episode isn’t just about saying goodbye to Nova — it’s about saying goodbye to the grief, fear, and pain we’ve all been holding onto.

If you're carrying emotional weight from past loss, trauma, or heartbreak…

The Drill Method™ gives you a way to feel it — and finally free it.

Start your process today with the Meditation Bundle at innerwealthglobal.com

And join us for the Choose Your Destiny Live Intensive on August 22–23.

We’ll go there together.

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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.

Chapters

1. Introduction to Inner Wealth (00:00:00)

2. The Loss of Nova (00:03:02)

3. Nova's Special Bond with the Family (00:10:48)

4. The DRILL Method for Processing Emotions (00:15:01)

5. Learning to Accept Reality (00:21:09)

6. Signs and Spiritual Connections (00:31:25)

7. Closing Thoughts and Book Announcement (00:34:09)