Welcome to the Eventful Entrepreneur.

I'm Dodge Woodall, founder of Bournemouth Sevens, the world's largest sport and music festival.

We are born of sevens.

Ever since events across the world came to a grinding halt, I've been bringing people back together, but in a different way.

Hello and welcome to the Eventful Entrepreneur. I've been bringing people back together, but in a different way.

Hello and welcome to the Eventful Entrepreneur podcast.

This episode is a follow-up to the story covered in episodes 1,4, 7 and 18,

where we've discussed the journey of the Eventful entrepreneur himself.

I'm producer Dan and I'm here with Mr. Dodge Woodall. How are you,? I'm very good mate. Very good. Looking forward to this. Yeah, it's been a while since we sat down

and chatted through your story, isn't it? It has, it has. It's been a, yeah, it's been many months,

I think. Yeah, we've been trying to work through a queue of keen guests, aren't we? Absolutely. It's been amazing, but we're back here to talk about your journey.

In the last chapter of your story, we chatted about the critical years between 2009 and 2012,

when Bournemouth Festival began its long period of growth. It wasn't all smooth sailing, though,

so I'd recommend going back and listening to episodes 1, 4, 7 and 18 if you haven't already.

But today, we'll cover the following years where some big changes and challenges took place.

So let's start with 2013.

We ended the last chapter, in fact, talking about a situation you refer to as your David

and Goliath.

Can you give us some background on what happened there? Yeah, David and Goliath. Can you give us some background on what happened there?

Yeah, David and Goliath.

It was, wow, 2013.

We had a contract signed.

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