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The Festival Staffing Problem Nobody's Saying Out Loud

May 13, 2026 • Jese Gary • Episode 16

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How to run festivals, community events, and event production successfully? Don't fall victim to running your business with a system held together by spreadsheets, QuickBooks, Google Forms, and a prayer.

This week, I'm back with Cat McDevitt, from Eventeny, and we got into the festival operations conversation I've been wanting to have. Not the highlight reel. The real picture — the Frankenstein systems, the volunteer data that will shock you, the vendors who are quietly deciding you're a reputational risk, and what the festivals that are actually winning are doing differently.

If you organize festivals, produce community events, or have ever thought about scaling into that space — this one is for you.

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Cat McDevitt is the CMO at Eventeny — an all-in-one event management platform built for festival and large-scale event organizers. She works daily with producers running community festivals, music festivals, fandom conventions, farmers markets, and more, and has a front-row seat to what's working (and what's quietly breaking) in the festival industry right now.

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