Amanda Cupido is an award-winning podcast producer, TEDx speaker and post-exit entrepreneur. She is the Executive Podcast Advisor at The Walrus, which acquired her podcast production company in 2025. Her books, Let’s Talk Podcasting: The Essential Guide to Doing it Right and Let’s Talk Podcasting for Kids are Amazon bestsellers and have inspired people around the world to embrace the medium for close to a decade.
Amanda can be seen hosting the Ontario Parliamentary TV channel and heard on all podcast players as the host of Let’s Talk Thought Leadership, People B4 Machines, How to Fall Asleep Fast and more.
As an adjunct professor, she is known for trailblazing the educational approach to podcasting, generative AI and digital entrepreneurship. Previously, she worked as a radio producer, reporter and news anchor.
Drawing on her years behind the microphone and experience building and exiting a company, Amanda has become a highly sought-after keynote speaker.
Noteworthy Accomplishments
✓ Built and sold a podcasting business
✓ The first woman to be a program director at a talk radio station in Toronto
✓ Hit #1 on Apple Podcasts Canada
✓ Amazon #1 bestselling author of Let’s Talk Podcasting & Let’s Talk Podcasting for Kids
✓ Recipient of the 2025 Women of Inspiration Award
✓ Part of the 2021 Canadian delegation for the G20 YEA Summit
✓ Master’s degree in the Psychology of Leadership
✓ Toronto Public Library’s first Podcasting Innovator in Residence
