Welcome. I’m Jacqueline Raposo.

I’ve spent over twenty years putting my brain, body, and spirit to work creating stories with fascinating humans across industries and mediums.

I’m the interview journalist and freelance food writer behind hundreds of human interest feature articles and regular columns. I specialize in food history and people in hospitality, off-the-beaten-track travel experiences, the complexity of relationships, and how to live well with chronic illness + disability.

I’m the author of The Me, Without: A Year Exploring Habit, Healing, and Happiness (Ixia, 2019). It’s a personal growth memoir positing that we can find greater emotional value when we question our hard-rooted habits—even if only for a little while. Experts I interviewed across various industries help make sense of everything I learned. If you’re ready to shake up your inner life drastically, it’s here for you.

I’m the top-to-tail freelance narrative podcast producer behind shows that include the live dating podcast Love Bites Radio (Heritage Radio Network) and Service: Veteran Stories of Hunger and War (iHeartRadio).

And I’m the Director of Creative Projects for Cardoz Legacy, the team carrying Chef Floyd Cardoz’s legacy work forward. Floyd passed away in March 2020 from the Covid-19 virus. He was a colleague and friend, and I miss him.

In the past, I’ve been a stage actor (recognized by The New York Times and others), a monologue coach, a costume builder, a playwriting teacher, an early education teacher, a private chef, a recipe builder, a food stylist, a nanny, an office manager, a bartender, and a restaurant hostess.

Why the range?

I have an incurable illness, one that morphed and changed while I got my bachelor’s degree in fine arts and then built my career in New York City. Living with illness and disability in an inequitable world is undoubtedly challenging. However, my unique experiences have fostered innate strengths. When unexpected twists arise in life or work projects, I find creative solutions to keep moving forward. I learned how to build remote teams with excellent communication and production skills long before the pandemic brought the greater world into quarantine. And I ground my work in the intention and integrity that’s often missing in our modern, fast-paced digital workforce.

As a journalistic interviewer and writer, I strive to produce podcasts, articles, and other stories that help us relate to the universal human experience. That help humans slow down and dig into their inner lives. That inspire brave choices. That encourage compassion and action. That motivate us to break molds we never needed to make for ourselves.

Click the various links above to explore stories about hundreds of people I’ve been honored to work with. My world has been made all the better by them. I hope yours will be, too.

Thank you for joining us,