Built From Real Experience
I’m Michael Priest. I’ve spent decades building businesses, solving production problems, working events, learning from mistakes, and finding better ways to do the work. Festival Geeks exists to shorten that learning curve for other vendors.
Festival Geeks was created to help festival vendors replace fear and guesswork with knowledge, preparation, and practical experience. Through the podcast, vendor stories, useful tools, and honest conversations, the goal is simple: help vendors make better decisions, avoid costly mistakes, understand their numbers, and build businesses that last.
Real Stories
Honest experiences from vendors and business owners who have learned what works, what fails, and what they wish they had known sooner.
Real Lessons
Practical guidance built from years of business, production, and festival experience—not theory or recycled advice.
Real Results
Better preparation, stronger decisions, clearer numbers, and businesses that are more likely to last.
Too many vendors make expensive decisions in the dark—choosing events, buying equipment, setting prices, and judging their progress without enough reliable information. Festival Geeks exists to shine light into that uncertainty through real experience, practical tools, honest conversations, and clear numbers. The goal is to help vendors replace fear with preparation and make stronger decisions with confidence.