DO AS I SAY

By Joel Di Trapani

An advice show about the real problems in startups.... more

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How many episodes does DO AS I SAY have?

The podcast currently has 65 episodes available.

DO AS I SAY episodes:

June 08, 2025 65: How AI is going to be integrated in the workforce? (with Marcus Zeltzer)
Buy my game! I create a game from the ground up specifically for founders 🤯 it's called Pitch Please and I genuinely love playing it!
Prepare to hustle your way to the top in this cutthroat pitching showdown. Convince, charm, and con your way into the hearts and wallets of your competitors. Get ready to play the ultimate game of selling your soul for success.
The game is simple. Each round, every player matches a customer card with a product card and pitches the most absurd business they can imagine. The funniest and unequivocally worst idea wins.
https://pitchpleasegame.com/

THE GUEST
Marcus Zeltzer is the founder of Yellow Canary. Yellow Canary is disrupting the traditional approach to workforce compliance with its cutting-edge automation solutions. Marcus is deeply experienced in regulatory compliance and industrial relations, and he’s passionate about using AI and emerging technologies to simplify compliance, improve governance, and reshape the future of work in Australia.

THE SHOW
DO AS I SAY is an advice show about the real problems in startups. Real startup people. Real startup problems.

Connect with Marcus Zeltzer:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcuszeltzer/
Website: https://www.yellowcanary.com.au/

Connect with me:
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@joelditrapani
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5CVikUi4KcITAB4F15n5tZ
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-ditrapani/
Calendar: https://cal.com/joelditrapani
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://joelditrapani.com/
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39min
June 01, 2025 64: Will AI eventually destroy the music production industry? (with Josh Simons)
Buy my game! I create a game from the ground up specifically for founders 🤯 it's called Pitch Please and I genuinely love playing it!
Prepare to hustle your way to the top in this cutthroat pitching showdown. Convince, charm, and con your way into the hearts and wallets of your competitors. Get ready to play the ultimate game of selling your soul for success.
The game is simple. Each round, every player matches a customer card with a product card and pitches the most absurd business they can imagine. The funniest and unequivocally worst idea wins.
https://pitchpleasegame.com/

THE GUEST
Josh Simons is the CEO of Vinyl Group. Vinyl Group is the heartbeat of an equitable music world, delivering cutting-edge tech and media solutions that empower creators, fans, and brands across the global music ecosystem. With platforms like vinyl.group, Jaxsta, Vampr, and Serenade under its umbrella, Josh is building a music-tech world that connects over a million creators in more than 180 countries. A founder, songwriter, and TEDx speaker—Josh is redefining how music is discovered, credited, and celebrated.

THE SHOW
DO AS I SAY is an advice show about the real problems in startups. Real startup people. Real startup problems.

Connect with Josh Simons:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonsjosh/
Twitter/X: https://x.com/josh_simons_
Website: https://vinyl.group/

Connect with me:
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@joelditrapani
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5CVikUi4KcITAB4F15n5tZ
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-ditrapani/
Calendar: https://cal.com/joelditrapani
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://joelditrapani.com/
...more
24min
May 25, 2025 63: What healthcare will look like in 20 years (with Mark Woodland)
Buy my game! I create a game from the ground up specifically for founders 🤯 it's called Pitch Please and I genuinely love playing it!
Prepare to hustle your way to the top in this cutthroat pitching showdown. Convince, charm, and con your way into the hearts and wallets of your competitors. Get ready to play the ultimate game of selling your soul for success.
The game is simple. Each round, every player matches a customer card with a product card and pitches the most absurd business they can imagine. The funniest and unequivocally worst idea wins.
https://pitchpleasegame.com/

THE GUEST
Mark Woodland is the Founder and CEO of Kismet. Kismet is tackling some of the biggest challenges in global healthcare—from chronic disease and aging populations to access and infrastructure gaps—by reimagining how we care for each other in a digital, connected world. Mark is a seasoned entrepreneur and former Australian Army NCO, known for his bold vision and relentless drive to make healthcare more personal, seamless, and immediate.

THE SHOW
DO AS I SAY is an advice show about the real problems in startups. Real startup people. Real startup problems.

Connect with Mark Woodland:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markawoodland/
Twitter/X: https://x.com/MarkAWoodland
Website: https://www.kismet.healthcare/

Connect with me:
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@joelditrapani
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5CVikUi4KcITAB4F15n5tZ
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-ditrapani/
Calendar: https://cal.com/joelditrapani
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://joelditrapani.com/
...more
33min
May 18, 2025 62: How do people make their startups? (with Karl Brockman)
Buy my game! I create a game from the ground up specifically for founders 🤯 it's called Pitch Please and I genuinely love playing it!
Prepare to hustle your way to the top in this cutthroat pitching showdown. Convince, charm, and con your way into the hearts and wallets of your competitors. Get ready to play the ultimate game of selling your soul for success.
The game is simple. Each round, every player matches a customer card with a product card and pitches the most absurd business they can imagine. The funniest and unequivocally worst idea wins.
https://pitchpleasegame.com/

THE GUEST
Karl Brockman is the founder of Gold Brick Road. Gold Brick Road is reimagining how visionary entrepreneurs scale—with heart, clarity, and systems that actually work. Karl is on a mission to simplify the entrepreneurial journey so founders can build thriving organisations without burning out or compromising their values. He brings a powerful mix of leadership strategy, team development, and transformative insight that’s helping shape the next generation of sustainable, purpose-led businesses.

THE SHOW
DO AS I SAY is an advice show about the real problems in startups. Real startup people. Real startup problems.

Connect with Karl Brockman:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karlbrockman/
Website: https://goldbrickroad.com.au/

Connect with me:
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@joelditrapani
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5CVikUi4KcITAB4F15n5tZ
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-ditrapani/
Calendar: https://cal.com/joelditrapani
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://joelditrapani.com/
...more
29min
May 11, 2025 61: How do you build a relationship with leadership (with Sam Robertson)
Buy my game! I create a game from the ground up specifically for founders 🤯 it's called Pitch Please and I genuinely love playing it!
Prepare to hustle your way to the top in this cutthroat pitching showdown. Convince, charm, and con your way into the hearts and wallets of your competitors. Get ready to play the ultimate game of selling your soul for success.
The game is simple. Each round, every player matches a customer card with a product card and pitches the most absurd business they can imagine. The funniest and unequivocally worst idea wins.
https://pitchpleasegame.com/

THE GUEST
Sam Robertson is one of my oldest friends in the startup world and even though he probably didn't see it this way, my first ever competitor. Just like me, Sam started out his career by studying Civil Engineering in Brisbane, Australia. Sam started his startup journey with an edtech startup called Scooter Tutor in Australia that he scaled for years and that I absolutely saw as an early competitor. Sam then pivoted and took that business into the medtech space. After this, Sam spent years helping Trakis Kalinack to scale the multi -billion dollar organization, CloudKitchens through Australia and across the world. And now, Sam is the VP of Business Development at Carbon Robotics.

THE SHOW
DO AS I SAY is an advice show about the real problems in startups. Real startup people. Real startup problems.

Connect with Sam Robertson:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelmichaelrobertson/
Website: https://carbonrobotics.com/

Connect with me:
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@joelditrapani
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5CVikUi4KcITAB4F15n5tZ
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-ditrapani/
Calendar: https://cal.com/joelditrapani
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://joelditrapani.com/
...more
37min
April 13, 2025 60: Is AI killing software engineering? (with Laura Tacho)
Buy my game! I create a game from the ground up specifically for founders 🤯 it's called Pitch Please and I genuinely love playing it!
Prepare to hustle your way to the top in this cutthroat pitching showdown. Convince, charm, and con your way into the hearts and wallets of your competitors. Get ready to play the ultimate game of selling your soul for success.
The game is simple. Each round, every player matches a customer card with a product card and pitches the most absurd business they can imagine. The funniest and unequivocally worst idea wins.
https://pitchpleasegame.com/

THE GUEST
Laura Tacho is the CTO at DX, an insights platform for measuring and improving developer productivity. Laura is also one of the greatest leadership coaches I have ever met, and I had the privilege of working with her for years. When I started working with Laura, I had zero engineers and zero idea what I was doing in product at all, and step by step she built me and my entire team up from scratch. Because of Laura’s help we went from honestly a bit of a disaster of a product team to a genuinely world-class product team I am incredibly proud of! Laura is just the best.

THE SHOW
DO AS I SAY is an advice show about the real problems in startups. Real startup people. Real startup problems.

Connect with Laura Tacho:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauratacho/
Twitter/X: https://x.com/rhein_wein
Website: https://lauratacho.com/

Connect with me:
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@joelditrapani
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5CVikUi4KcITAB4F15n5tZ
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-ditrapani/
Calendar: https://cal.com/joelditrapani
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://joelditrapani.com/
...more
31min
April 06, 2025 59: Starting a podcast: Is it worth it? (with Harry Morton)
Buy my game! I create a game from the ground up specifically for founders 🤯 it's called Pitch Please and I genuinely love playing it!
Prepare to hustle your way to the top in this cutthroat pitching showdown. Convince, charm, and con your way into the hearts and wallets of your competitors. Get ready to play the ultimate game of selling your soul for success.
The game is simple. Each round, every player matches a customer card with a product card and pitches the most absurd business they can imagine. The funniest and unequivocally worst idea wins.
https://pitchpleasegame.com/

THE GUEST
Harry Morton is the CEO of Lower Street. Lower Street is a podcast production company creating some of the best podcasts on the internet with some of the biggest names and brands in the world like Sam Parr, Pepsi & Stanford. Harry also created my old podcast Unicorn Launcher which had over 1M impressions, won a bunch of awards and topped the charts. Harry is an expert story teller.

THE SHOW
DO AS I SAY is an advice show about the real problems in startups. Real startup people. Real startup problems.

Connect with Harry Morton:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrymorton/
Twitter/X: https://x.com/podcastharry
Website: https://lowerstreet.co/

Connect with me:
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@joelditrapani
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5CVikUi4KcITAB4F15n5tZ
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-ditrapani/
Calendar: https://cal.com/joelditrapani
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://joelditrapani.com/
...more
39min
March 30, 2025 58: How companies evaluate PM seniority when hiring? (with Brodie Cummins)
Buy my game! I create a game from the ground up specifically for founders 🤯 it's called Pitch Please and I genuinely love playing it!
Prepare to hustle your way to the top in this cutthroat pitching showdown. Convince, charm, and con your way into the hearts and wallets of your competitors. Get ready to play the ultimate game of selling your soul for success.
The game is simple. Each round, every player matches a customer card with a product card and pitches the most absurd business they can imagine. The funniest and unequivocally worst idea wins.
https://pitchpleasegame.com/

THE GUEST
Brodie Cummins is the Owner & Director of teraDigital Services, a niche recruitment and advisory firm focused deeply in the software and tech world. Brodie cares a lot about the space and spends a lot of time creating resources and content to educate the community and even hosts a surfing meetup for people in tech.

THE SHOW
DO AS I SAY is an advice show about the real problems in startups. Real startup people. Real startup problems.

Connect with Brodie Cummins:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brodiecummins/
Website: https://teradigital.com.au/

Connect with me:
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@joelditrapani
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5CVikUi4KcITAB4F15n5tZ
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-ditrapani/
Calendar: https://cal.com/joelditrapani
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://joelditrapani.com/
...more
33min
March 24, 2025 57: Why do companies ignore users? (with Chris Saad)
Buy my game! I create a game from the ground up specifically for founders 🤯 it's called Pitch Please and I genuinely love playing it!
Prepare to hustle your way to the top in this cutthroat pitching showdown. Convince, charm, and con your way into the hearts and wallets of your competitors. Get ready to play the ultimate game of selling your soul for success.
The game is simple. Each round, every player matches a customer card with a product card and pitches the most absurd business they can imagine. The funniest and unequivocally worst idea wins.
https://pitchpleasegame.com/

THE GUEST
Chris Saad is a product advisor working with some of the best startups around the world! He has worked with everyone from tiny startups to Uber, Disney, Microsoft! Chris was my first ever product advisor and really helped me go from 0 to 1! I think in a product sense, I am a product centrist, where as Chris is all the way on the edge. He is a product purist, a product artist. He cares and thinks deeply about the space and will push anyone to take a step in the right direction.

THE SHOW
DO AS I SAY is an advice show about the real problems in startups. Real startup people. Real startup problems.

Connect with Chris Saad:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissaad/
Twitter/X: https://x.com/ChrisSaad
Website: https://www.chrissaad.com/

Connect with me:
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@joelditrapani
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5CVikUi4KcITAB4F15n5tZ
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-ditrapani/
Calendar: https://cal.com/joelditrapani
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://joelditrapani.com/
...more
37min
February 17, 2025 56: How much equity should you give advisors? (with Jock Fairweather)
Buy my game! I create a game from the ground up specifically for founders 🤯 it's called Pitch Please and I genuinely love playing it!
Prepare to hustle your way to the top in this cutthroat pitching showdown. Convince, charm, and con your way into the hearts and wallets of your competitors. Get ready to play the ultimate game of selling your soul for success.
The game is simple. Each round, every player matches a customer card with a product card and pitches the most absurd business they can imagine. The funniest and unequivocally worst idea wins.
https://pitchpleasegame.com/
THE GUEST
Jock Fairweather, co-founder of Community VC, is a serial entrepreneur, mentor, and founder advocate. With a history of building and supporting startups, Jock brings deep insights into raising capital, working with mentors, and navigating the early challenges of building a business.
THE QUESTIONS
🔍 How Much Equity Should You Give an Advisor?
Equity for advisors isn’t one-size-fits-all. It depends on their role, long-term alignment, and the value they bring. Protect your equity with vesting schedules and clear milestones to ensure they continue delivering meaningful contributions.
💡 How Do You Get Feedback on Your Pitch Deck?
A pitch deck alone won’t secure investment. Build relationships with potential investors early by seeking advice, sharing updates, and demonstrating progress. Feedback from those who understand your business or have raised funding themselves is often more valuable than input from VCs.
🔄 How Do You Work With Mentors Effectively?
Successful mentoring relationships are built on trust, effort, and mutual investment. Do your research, approach with clear goals, and demonstrate progress. Mentors invest time in founders who show growth, follow through on advice, and provide thoughtful feedback.
THE SHOW
DO AS I SAY is an advice show about the real problems in startups. Real startup people. Real startup problems.
Connect with Jock Fairweather:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jockfairweather/
Twitter/X: https://x.com/Jockefeller1
Community VC: https://community-vc.com/
Connect with me:
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@joelditrapani
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5CVikUi4KcITAB4F15n5tZ
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-ditrapani/
Calendar: https://cal.com/joelditrapani
Email:[email protected]
Website: https://joelditrapani.com/
...more
26min

FAQs about DO AS I SAY:

How many episodes does DO AS I SAY have?

The podcast currently has 65 episodes available.