Okay, we're live. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show of a very special guest. Her name is Renee Marino, and she has just written a book or writing a book, which will be published in early 2022. And the title of the book is, becoming a master communicator, beginning new school technology, balancing new school technology with old

school simplicity. Sorry, that was a wrong tell. Anyway, she is a professional communication coach,

and she's going to talk more about her book. So Renee, are you there? I am here. I'm so happy

to be here. Thanks for having me. Well, thanks for agreeing to the interview. For people who may not have heard your background, can you talk about your background and what led

you to write this book becoming a master communicator? Absolutely. For over 16 years of my life,

I was a professional, actor, singer, dancer on Broadway and film, television. And I've always been obsessed, William, with communication.

And I think it comes from my background. I grew up in an Italian-American family. So it was

very common for us to be sitting around the kitchen table, talking, eating, laughing, arguing

sometimes, but nonetheless, communicating and connecting. And because of that

all throughout my life, I was always intrigued with the way people communicated and why. And the years

that I was recording music, I even created a song called To Communicate, Go Figure. And then in 2017, I started doing my most recent

Broadway show, which was Pretty Woman the Musical, just like the movie. And I had this idea to

write a book. I've always been a writer since five years old. It was one of my other passions.

And after talking to my girlfriends in the dressing room about who's dating who and if they're bringing up conversations that are on their minds and just all this talk about communication, I said to myself,

there's a book in this.

And especially nowadays, as you mentioned,

my title, balancing new school technology with old school simplicity. That subtitle is really

about the fact that we are now in this digital age, right? Everyone's with a smartphone.

We're all connecting virtually. And it's such a beautiful gift. But if we don't

learn to balance it with those more personal channels of communication like face to face,

picking up an actual phone to your ear to have a conversation or handwritten letters, right?

Remember those? If we don't balance that, then we're in for problems. And I've

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