#210 The Ego That Kills Businesses: Sean Steimer on Partnerships, Failure, and Tenacity

The biggest killer of businesses isn’t money, competition, or bad timing. It’s ego.

In this episode of High Voltage Business Builders, Neil Twa sits down with serial entrepreneur Sean Steimer to break down how ego destroys partnerships, blinds founders, and turns promising ventures into unnecessary failures.

Sean went from cleaning tables in Scottsdale restaurants to managing multimillion-dollar operations, running a real estate team, opening restaurants, and scaling a patented golf product that nearly died when his original partner walked away. Sean reveals how he rebuilt from that moment and how self-awareness and humility determine whether your business thrives or collapses.

If you’ve ever struggled with partnerships, conflict, burnout, or the temptation to give up, this episode will hit home.

In This Episode, We Cover:

✅ Why ego ruins more businesses than money ever will

✅ The red flags that reveal a bad partner long before the paperwork

✅ The real impact entrepreneurship has on marriage and family

✅ Why “nothing fails until you quit” is the most underrated mindset

✅ The discipline of managing priorities, time, and expectations

📍 Chapters

04:40 Growing up in real estate and developing resilience

07:00 How ego kills deals, partnerships, and businesses

09:20 Communication as the #1 predictor of partner success

11:45 Time management, priorities, and “controlling the controllables”

14:10 Marriage, support systems, and life behind the grind

18:10 The Swingy story: patent win, partner exit, rebuilding alone

21:30 Scaling an ecommerce product to thousands of units

23:40 Failure, persistence, and why quitting is the only real loss

Guest: Sean Steimer

Entrepreneur, Real Estate Operator, Co-Founder of Swingy

Website: https://swingy.com

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