Thank you for the quick response Paolo, this is perfect and exactly what I was looking for. I just had to make one small change in the date from “return ‘d/m/Y'” to “return ‘m/d/Y'” to display mmddyyyy.
The end result was adding the following to the functions.php in my child theme for anyone else that may need it.
add_filter('geodir_add_event_calendar_date_format', 'geodir_add_event_calendar_date_format_change',10,1);
function geodir_add_event_calendar_date_format_change($format){
return 'm/d/Y';
}