You don't have to be a starving artist - ask RD "Randy" Riccoboni, entrepreneur, bestselling author, internationally collected and renowned artist and mentor. Now, that he has made the leap from struggling artist to successful business owner, he is passionate about teaching others to do the same. Why are only 2% of artists generating a viable income? RD is in that small percentage of artists turned entrepreneur and can show you how it is done. If you would like to learn how to monetize your artistic ability, RD shares with you the secret recipe and the 7 steps involved. He not only has an eye for art, but a mind for business as well. Can you imagine spending your time doing what you love, while gaining financial independence? Whether you are an employee, a manager or an aspiring business owner, you too can utilize RD's 7 Studios of business success with guiding principles to get there. " The Big Picture - The Seven Step Guide For Creative Success In Business," is your guidebook to personal and financial freedom. Allow the expert to take you by the hand and walk you through practical and powerful exercises on each and every page and get REAL business tips too. Business Expert and New York Times Best Selling Author, Peggy McColl. says "The structure of this book is brilliant and simple. Following RD's suggestions is easy which is precisely the way success is meant to be ... easy " Take the leap with RD into your Big Picture of success

I find it ironic that the types of books I like to read and movies I like to watch are about people who have been faced with less than favorable odds and yet were able to beat those odds. Little did I know that my life was about to become one of these stories. On March 5, 2010, I was admitted to the hospital with influenza A, pneumonia that quickly went into Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. I was given less than one percent chance of survival. At first I wasn't too keen on the idea of writing about my illness. I wondered if I really wanted to go back and recount, or continue to remember, this nightmare. Would writing about it maybe help me down the road? Would this be what I needed to do in order to heal emotionally? A nurse in my neurologist's office encouraged me to write my story because she said there never has been a book written about someone with Multiple Sclerosis who had gone through what I did and not have a flare up from this disease, let alone survive. So she gave me the incentive to tell my story in hopes that it would help others. I also thought about other families who might go through similar situations and who could get encouragement from my experience. Above all, I wanted to express my thanks to my husband, my children, and my friends and to my God for the help and encouragement they provided during my illness and my road to recovery. I hope this encourages you as well.

Making links between different professional roles, policies and practices, this book equips readers swith the skills, knowledge and understanding that managers, practitioners and students require to work in integrated multiprofessional settings. It draws on case studies to consider the dilemmas, challenges and complexities common within workplaces. Chapters cover: - roles, policies and practices in integrated services - quality assessment in a multiprofessional context - evaluating and developing children and family services - participation and engagement in integrated family centres - contemporary leadership and management in multiprofessional teams - innovative multiprofessional learning - creative multiprofessional environments. Each chapter incorporates activities to support professional development. Six chapters analyse: multi-professional case studies on inclusive education; joint assessment and family support; leadership in integrated children's services (education, health and social services); participatory one-stop family centre design; and mentoring in the childcare/early years sector.