Christian Brim has spent 28 years running Core Group, a firm that helps entrepreneurs in creative industries trade financial anxiety for clarity. But the conversation with Sam Sapp quickly moves past spreadsheets. Christian argues that the same inflated ego that makes entrepreneurs successful is the exact thing that caps their growth, and he ties that idea to a study where a founder's brain lit up identically for photos of their kids and their business. From there it goes to delegation, faith, bankruptcy in the oil patch, and why he still can't explain why he bet everything on a franchise in 1997.