Welcome to the eventful entrepreneur. I'm Roger Woodall, founder of the Borma Sevens,

the world's largest sport and music festival. With all events in 2020 grinding to a halt,

I'll be bringing people back together, but in a different way.

On this week's episode, I'm talking to one of the main men behind the massively successful body power event at the NEC Birmingham, Steve Orton.

Steve has worked in events since an early age and is a fitness training and events industry specialist.

We talk about how the Body Power Expo has grown to become the beast it is today,

with 90,000 people attending, the uncertainty over the past year,

and how events are going to come back bigger and stronger than ever.

This is a great listen for anyone into fitness, training and events.

Here's the man himself, Mr Steve Orton.

Steve, welcome on board, mate.

Good to see you, mate.

Yeah, really good to see you.

So Steve, you have, you're the owner of body power,

the 90,000 people at the NEC in Birmingham every single year.

Big numbers.

Tell me about how you got into events.

So, yeah, one of the co-owners,

obviously Nick, who's my brother as well owns it, events goes back since I was like a teenager.

Probably when I was like 15, every school holiday going like into the offices. Like we've had events

running in the family and stuff like that for like 40 years. And it always used to be around what

the old man, our old man did. So he's a dentist. So we ran the dentistry shows and things like that.

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