 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA Podcast, the newsroom for tech, telecom and data center professionals. I'm Buffy Hierarchitis coming to you from Channel Partners 2022 in fabulous Las Vegas. And joining me today is John Mescorella, executive director of Indirect Channel Sales for Cox. Hi John, welcome to JSA TV. Hey, thank you very much. Great to be here. Appreciate you spending the time with us today. Yeah, so great to be back here at Channel Partners in person. I mean, Cox has a huge presence every year, year after year here at Channel Partners. Why don't you tell us what Cox has been up to when it comes to the channel? So we've been investing heavily, not just in enablement, but in new products and services. So with our acquisition of rapid scale, we've been deploying managed services for mid-market customers, really think businesses 50 seats to 1,000 seats, who need desktop infrastructure services, SD-WAN solutions. And then on the Cox side, our broadband side, we've been growing that as well, being able to do connectivity both within our cable franchise areas as well as nationally. So we've been growing our program really leaps and bounds by acquisition as well as investment in our core infrastructure to be able to provide more solutions to business customers and help them solve problems that they have. And John, tell me a little bit more about your podcast and some of the topics that you've been talking about on the podcast when it comes to like pandemic recovery and I'm so I'm so interested to hear more about your podcast and what you guys have been talking about. Well, thanks for that. You know, with the pandemic, I think everybody's done a podcast now. But what we found was when we looked at our indirect program and talked to our agents when we did some listening tours and so forth was really trying to, as a business owner, you're working with these agents, they're running businesses and they need assistance with what's happening in this space, whether it's economic information, trends, inclusion and diversity advice, marketing advice. So we've taken some industry experts both internally at Cox. Most recently we did a podcast with our chief economist from Cox Automotive talking about the economy and what to expect. An upcoming podcast, we have an inclusion and diversity podcast coming up with one of our leaders at Cox as well who's in the forefront of that program. So we're really excited about providing that voice to the agents so they can hear about what's happening in the industry and help themselves be better business owners and help solve their customers' problems more effectively as well. Yeah, such a critical topic in today's environment, diversity, inclusion and all of the wonderful things that you're talking about on your podcast. I mean we'd love to have you on our podcast Data Movers so we'll get that booked but tell me a little bit more about some of the awards that you personally have won, Channel Chief and give us some more details about that. So I'm fortunate, if I'm winning an award I'm really winning it because of the team and how we've executed in the field because those awards are really recognition for the program. So I was named Channel Chief which is great but really the recognition goes back to the team and our team members on the rapid scale side and the Cox business side and what we do every day to enable our agents to be effective, to make it simple for them to do business. Those awards aren't about me, it's about what the group does and how well we're doing. So I want to give the group really the recognition, the team the recognition they deserve for our success we're having in the industry. So that's really where it goes first and foremost is to our team because that's who our agents really enjoy working with and they're really carrying the water for us out there to help us be successful. Well congratulations to your team and to you for the Channel Chief Award. Is there anything else that you'd like to add? You know I would tell you if you're not doing business with Cox business and rapid scale today you want to engage with us. We can help you help your customers solve their problems. Our portfolio is growing by leaps and bounds so please take the time to reach out to us. You can find us on LinkedIn at Cox business. You can find us there's rapid scale as well and obviously you can find us at the Channel Partner Show. We're always here in full force creating relationships and uncovering new opportunities. Well thank you so much John for joining us at another fabulous episode of JSA TV here at Channel Partners 2022. Be sure to follow JSA on LinkedIn and Twitter and at hashtag Greener Data for all you need to know about our upcoming book and movement Greener Data. Happy Channel Networking!