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"You're so scared when you're losing your child that you're going to forget"

A photographer who cancelled on a shoot and a 6-year-old changed Joe Yetman's life.

The former UMD student is a professional photographer ... but on November 21, 2015, he found his vocation. 

"I feel like I've packed about 100 years of living in the last few months" says Yetman.  "My heart has learned lessons I never imagined. 

"This really is the most beautiful and awful thing you could ever do - that's how I feel when I walk into a shoot. It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen, but it's so incredibly sad. It crushes my heart and fills it back up again all at the same time.

"I'm scared all the time, but I can't see myself doing anything else. My life would be a lie if I tried to ignore my calling."

Thanks to Josie Fan for her reporting and photography on this story. 

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Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.