Kep Kepner is a repeat entrepreneur and founder of Kepner CPAs and Mindsmarts. He joins Henry Harrison to talk through an unconventional path — from his father's Wichita manufacturing business, to IBM sales, to an Arthur Young partnership, to a venture-backed real estate company that collapsed in the 1980s Texas downturn, to rebuilding a CPA firm from his bedroom.

Kep opens up about what most founders miss when they take outside capital, why the savings and loan era taught him to read his investors as carefully as the market, and how the family cost of a business failure often exceeds the financial one.

He also explains why he restructured his CPA firm around fractional CFO retainers, why he licensed neuroscience protocols from the Center for BrainHealth at UT Dallas to build Mindsmarts, and how brain training helped him double profit ...