Large public gatherings will remain banned until September.

Summing was needed and I just happened to spark it over a glass of red wine.

I had an opportunity in the time when the resource and some contacts and I took a pump.

Before the pandemic in Britain, live music was a booming billion pound industry.

We have responsibilities as industry leaders to get this industry into a better place than when

we started in it, and to leave a legacy of opportunity for the next generation.

And if there is anything that we have responsibility to do as business leaders, that's got to be the optimum.

Many will be waiting and watching to see if British festivals can indeed flourish again.

Welcome to the eventful entrepreneur.

I'm your host Dodge and I'm the CEO and founder of the Bournemouth Sevens Festival and the revolutionary event crowd our new online events course.

On this podcast I speak to fascinating people who have all lived eventful lives. So if you want to hear more like this, make sure you subscribe, leave us a glowing review, and you can follow me on Instagram at Dodge Woodall.

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Throughout the past two years, a handful of people have taken the events industry by the scruff of the neck to get it back to its very best.

One of those people is Rick Stainton.

As a founder of the incredible creative agency smile,

Rick has decades of experience in creating live events and has worked with the likes of Rolls-Royce,

Samsung, Red Bull, Facebook and many more. But in 2020, co-founded One Industry One Voice. This helped

coordinate the collective industry response to the COVID pandemic and has done some

fantastic work.

Rick has also been a big supporter of our new event crowd course and is one of the main

expert lecturers who has dedicated their own time to make it the very best events

course out there.

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