
Ego might be the most expensive thing on your balance sheet
From Wellness To Wealth by Jenna Schulman
January 16, 2026 · 20 min · Season 1 · Episode 2
About this episode
This episode discusses how ego can negatively impact financial success and explores the benefits of humility in business.
Is your ego holding your bank account hostage? We often confuse "grit" with stubbornness, refusing to change direction because we’re afraid to look like failures. In this episode, we break down the ROI of Humility. We look at how successful founders use the "Ego-Free Pivot" to turn mistakes into money, and why admitting you were wrong is the ultimate form of financial wellness. Topics: Overcoming the Sunk Cost Fallacy.Separating your identity from your business failures.Lessons from the "fail...
Topics covered
- Ego
- ROI of Humility
- Ego-Free Pivot
- Sunk Cost Fallacy
- Business failures
Keywords
- financial wellness
- successful founders
- mistakes
- admitting wrong
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