Welcome to the Eventful Entrepreneur.

My name's Dodge. I've been an entrepreneur for over 30 years and thrown thousands of parties across the UK

and I'm also the owner of the Bournemouth Sevens Festival.

Everyone who knows me knows I love people, having a laugh and asking lots of questions.

So I've been chatting to people with one thing in common.

They've all lived eventful lives.

Hello and welcome to a special episode of the Eventful Entrepreneur podcast.

Today we're talking about the very welcome return of festivals to the UK

and more specifically the first former

sevens in over two years. I'm producer Dan and I'm here with the eventful entrepreneur himself,

Mr Dodge Woodall. How are you, Dodge? Very good mate. Really, really nice to be here right now,

I can't tell you. How good does that sound by the way? Oh my God, 27 months since I've

lost for a party. Wow. It's craziness. Wow, wow, wow. It's been a, it's been a crazy couple of

years, Dan, but the festival site is nearly built. That's it. Just two days to go, as I said, in the

intro, for the first, former sevens in over two years, the longest period in your life where you haven't thrown a big party.

How surreal has that been?

You only realise how lucky you are when something's been taken away from you, you know, and it has been taken away from me.

And I just love bringing people together.

I love throwing a party, as you know.

I love seeing people's smiles on people's face.

I love seeing people in the field dancing and being happy, you know.

And yeah, it's been quite weird, but it's allowed me to plan a lot.

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