Steve Strickland BMSE Expo and RMD Energy Founder

This isn't your typical podcast—it's a session with Steve Strickland packed with valuable wisdom, holistic lifestyle techniques, and practical exercises that you can incorporate into your daily routine for a healthier, happier life.

Founder and Promotor

Steve develops and guides the overall direction of RMD Energy. He manages the strategic integration and global development of the company and its projects. Steve owns and has successfully run BMSE, a natural health expo company for the last 30 years. With more than 35 events annually across the US and Japan, it is the largest holistic living expo company in the world and generally considered the first expo of the modern “green” movement. Prior to starting BMSE, Steve managed political campaigns in Florida. He served as a legislative assistant to Congressman Earl Hutto. Steve holds a BA from Beloit College in Philosophy and Logic where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He was a National Merit Scholar, and his University’s Wilson Scholarship nominee.

BMS Celebration started in Ashland Oregon in 1986. The events have always maintained an equal emphasis on natural health, personal growth, metaphysics and entertainment. Our festivals balance local participation with the inclusion of a selection of the finest regional and national names in the holistic arena. Rapidly expanding in the late 1980s to all of the largest markets in the pacific northwest, the early 1990s saw BMSE create events throughout the southeast of the USA. Our 2012 purchase of the Legendary Metaphysical Celebration in Colorado and subsequent launch of our Whole Life Festival saw an increased blending of entertainment elements into our production. Interactive entertainment at events includes yoga domes, kirtan & ambiant music stages, meditation spaces, live sand mandalas and even a holistic circus. 2020 saw the acquisition of the highly successful Victory of Light Festival in Cincinnati.