Allison Johnsen of Cleo Coaching partners with her clients to offer them professional coaching for “Intentional Change for Work and Life.” Cleo Coaching focuses on “Support for the challenges, demands, responsibilities and stress that accompany achievement. Clarify what you need to do, then act, and thrive.” Allison and I met via zoom to prepare and […]

Allison with Cleo Coaching

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July 8, 2024

23 years married today. My best friend and an amazing father to our crazy crew. I am grateful we have both been willing to work on our marriage and choose joy. We formally said goodbye for now to our favorite city: Chicago; a place we started our marriage, built our family, and grew into who we […]

23 years together & saying goodbye for now to Chicago

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July 7, 2024

Partnering with Dr. Bonnie again feels more like hanging out with a friend now but we were all about creating intentional content and images for her branding storytelling session. When you book a branding storytelling session we partner closely to help create way more than pretty pictures- we work together closely to understand ad create […]

“Your Accountabilibuddy” Dr Bonnie

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July 2, 2024

Seeing how much Lexie has grown (since our last session) and being invited to this beautiful family’s home was a blessing! We made time for play and had a great family session at home. Mallory shared, “Thank you SO much for taking the time to photograph our family. You have a natural way of making […]

Poe Family at home

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July 1, 2024

The Rasmussen family invited me to photograph their family in their community of Westmont. We found a great mix of the area right near the tracks and a park nearby. Rosemary and Arand are so close as siblings and it was so much fun to tell the story of this family’s connection.

Rasmussen Family

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June 30, 2024

Angelyn begins her senior year in the fall and I was invited to photograph her Senior Portraits. It is so special to partner with families I have known for so long. The Jerozal family are dear to us and I have known Angelyn since she was born so being invited to photograph her Senior Portraits […]

Angelyn’s Senior Portraits

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June 21, 2024

Before I relocate to North Carolina Patty from the Wardlow Group reached out to have another Brand Storytelling Session. I love ongoing partnerships with my clients because they feel more comfortable and confident as we work together and I am able to better understand their brand and messaging. This session was right around Father’s Day […]

Wardlow Group

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June 20, 2024

The Kone family is dear to us as our family has been a part of their house church CEM Christ Empowered Messengers for the last few years. Karim and Juliette lead their family and community with love and their home is always full of people and buzzing with positive energy. They are passionate about community […]

Kone Family

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June 19, 2024

Recently I was invited to photograph Caroline in Milwaukee for her Senior Portrait Session. I had traveled there a couple years ago for her older sister’s session too and we wanted to plan a session unique to her while having a similar city vibe! Partnering with her family we planned locations and made sure we […]

Caroline’s Senior Session in Milwaukee

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June 18, 2024