Dec. 22, 2025
Season One Recap and Season Two Sneak Peek with Host Seth Macchi
Welcome to The Event Pro Show! In this episode, Seth Macchi looks back on a standout first season filled with practical conversations and real-world perspectives from across the events industry. From planners and speakers to AV leaders, educators, and experiential marketers, Season One delivered thoughtful guidance from every angle of live events. Seth also offers a preview of what’s ahead, including deeper conversations around current challenges, multi-guest discussions, and interactive webinars designed to support event professionals at every stage. Whether you’ve been listening since day one or you’re just tuning in, this episode celebrates where we’ve been and sets the stage for what’s coming next.
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Welcome to the Event Pro show, your ultimate guide to the world of corporate
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events. Whether you're a corporate event planner, experiential, marketing
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pro, producer, technician or anyone involved in creating exceptional
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events, this podcast is your go to resource for valuable insights,
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expert tips and inspiring stories from the industry's leading professionals.
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Well, thank you for joining us on the Event Pro Show. I am your host,
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Seth Macchi and here we are at the end of
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season one. Now we have one more guest episode
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coming and as you know, if you listen to the show every
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other week I have a guest that I introduce you to. And then the other
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alternate week I dive a little bit deeper into how meeting
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planners can work better with AV partners. But
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thinking back on season one, we have covered a
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lot of ground. So if you've missed some of the episodes, these are the
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guests that I was able to introduce you to to
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that are involved in some way, shape or form in
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producing corporate events. I've introduced you to an operations
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pro. She's a pro at large format,
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motorsports, theater, those types of things. Corporate
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planning, several planners, AV project
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manager, keynote speaker, industry
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advocate, entertainment provider, technical
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director, production companies, several production companies,
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several event rental providers, an experiential
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marketer, a food expert, a motivational
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speaker, a CVB pro, convention and
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visitors bureau professional event industry
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journalist. That was a great discussion. A sales expert
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who's also an amazing motivational speaker,
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hospitality educator and consultant, a
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technical consultant, social media brand
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builder and our last episode will be with a
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translation software innovator. That's really changing
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the way that we interact at large format
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events or any size events. That's going to be a great episode.
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Next week we'll release that. But what can we look forward
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to in season two? Well, season two will kick off early
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next year and you can expect deeper dives into
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challenging or trending topics. So we want to
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where we introduce you to a lot of people this year I'm going to continue
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to do that. Of course you're going to meet more movers and shakers in the
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events industry. But I want to spend a few episodes
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next season diving into topics that are challenges people are
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trying to solve right now, real time or trending topics, popular
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topics that people are talking about and we might do some webinars
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or some multi guest type of experiences. I want
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to just get as many voices as I can in here because I think it's
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very valuable that we are constantly surrounding
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ourselves with people that are smarter than us at what they do so we can
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learn. And that's the whole goal of the Event Pro Show. I want
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to thank you if you've stuck with us or if you just listened to one
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episode. Wonderful. Thank you for spending your time with us in season one.
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We're just getting going. I think we're going to keep going with this thing. If
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you've missed season one you can go to the event eventproshow.com
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and hear all of our back episodes or you can go to somewhere like
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Spotify or Apple Music and you can subscribe
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to the podcast there and it comes out every week,
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once a week and we really appreciate you and I hope you
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guys have a wonderful off season and then we're going to hit
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2026 and do the best shows we've ever done in our lives.
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Thank you so much and we'll see you on the next one.
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The Event Pro show is a production of LEMG video
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by Nick Barrett, audio and post production by Prince
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Thompson. You can learn more about us at LEMG
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Live.
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Welcome to the Event Pro show, your ultimate guide to the world of corporate
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00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,800
events. Whether you're a corporate event planner, experiential, marketing
3
00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:11,440
pro, producer, technician or anyone involved in creating exceptional
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00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,960
events, this podcast is your go to resource for valuable insights,
5
00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:18,720
expert tips and inspiring stories from the industry's leading professionals.
6
00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:29,400
Well, thank you for joining us on the Event Pro Show. I am your host,
7
00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,890
Seth Macchi and here we are at the end of
8
00:00:32,890 --> 00:00:36,730
season one. Now we have one more guest episode
9
00:00:36,730 --> 00:00:40,410
coming and as you know, if you listen to the show every
10
00:00:40,410 --> 00:00:43,610
other week I have a guest that I introduce you to. And then the other
11
00:00:43,610 --> 00:00:47,410
alternate week I dive a little bit deeper into how meeting
12
00:00:47,410 --> 00:00:50,890
planners can work better with AV partners. But
13
00:00:51,130 --> 00:00:54,810
thinking back on season one, we have covered a
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00:00:54,810 --> 00:00:58,570
lot of ground. So if you've missed some of the episodes, these are the
15
00:00:58,570 --> 00:01:01,910
guests that I was able to introduce you to to
16
00:01:02,550 --> 00:01:05,910
that are involved in some way, shape or form in
17
00:01:06,070 --> 00:01:09,670
producing corporate events. I've introduced you to an operations
18
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pro. She's a pro at large format,
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motorsports, theater, those types of things. Corporate
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planning, several planners, AV project
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manager, keynote speaker, industry
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advocate, entertainment provider, technical
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director, production companies, several production companies,
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several event rental providers, an experiential
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marketer, a food expert, a motivational
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speaker, a CVB pro, convention and
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visitors bureau professional event industry
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journalist. That was a great discussion. A sales expert
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who's also an amazing motivational speaker,
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hospitality educator and consultant, a
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technical consultant, social media brand
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builder and our last episode will be with a
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translation software innovator. That's really changing
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the way that we interact at large format
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events or any size events. That's going to be a great episode.
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Next week we'll release that. But what can we look forward
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00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:21,400
to in season two? Well, season two will kick off early
38
00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:25,400
next year and you can expect deeper dives into
39
00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:29,240
challenging or trending topics. So we want to
40
00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:33,320
where we introduce you to a lot of people this year I'm going to continue
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to do that. Of course you're going to meet more movers and shakers in the
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events industry. But I want to spend a few episodes
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next season diving into topics that are challenges people are
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trying to solve right now, real time or trending topics, popular
45
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topics that people are talking about and we might do some webinars
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or some multi guest type of experiences. I want
47
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to just get as many voices as I can in here because I think it's
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very valuable that we are constantly surrounding
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ourselves with people that are smarter than us at what they do so we can
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00:03:06,229 --> 00:03:09,950
learn. And that's the whole goal of the Event Pro Show. I want
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00:03:09,950 --> 00:03:12,910
to thank you if you've stuck with us or if you just listened to one
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00:03:12,910 --> 00:03:16,630
episode. Wonderful. Thank you for spending your time with us in season one.
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We're just getting going. I think we're going to keep going with this thing. If
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00:03:20,070 --> 00:03:23,690
you've missed season one you can go to the event eventproshow.com
55
00:03:23,690 --> 00:03:27,090
and hear all of our back episodes or you can go to somewhere like
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Spotify or Apple Music and you can subscribe
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to the podcast there and it comes out every week,
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once a week and we really appreciate you and I hope you
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00:03:38,010 --> 00:03:41,130
guys have a wonderful off season and then we're going to hit
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2026 and do the best shows we've ever done in our lives.
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Thank you so much and we'll see you on the next one.
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The Event Pro show is a production of LEMG video
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by Nick Barrett, audio and post production by Prince
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Thompson. You can learn more about us at LEMG
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Live.