Super excited. We have a special, special, special zoom for you guys tonight about how to maximize your ketones and how to get that best experience or if you've been drinking ketones for a while, maybe it's how do you break a plateau? How do you fine tune it for yourself in the phase that you're at? And our ultimate goal here is for you to know a few things. Number one, that ketones are really vital to getting you that maximal results. Number two, that it will work for you but everybody's body is gonna be different and there's gonna be a progression of how it's gonna work and the timing it's gonna take to work. And then number three is how do you get that ultimate experience you're looking for? Especially during the holidays. I got a special one zion for you all, a drink ketones during the holidays. So I'm super, super excited. Hi, Angel, hi, Michael.  And we're gonna dive in. I have a crew of young ladies here that are gonna talk about their experiences. So instead of you just hearing me talk about all these things like do this and do this and do this and do this, I want you to hear from people that have been utilizing ketones that and gotten experiences from their voices of how they got started, how they've used it and their benefits. And then what we're gonna do is we're gonna help you, each one of you fine tune this for yourself. We're gonna try to do our best to get to all the questions that are coming at us. So yes, you can ask us questions. We're gonna do the best we can to get you all the information and we don't get to everything, please. We will come back and we'll follow up through to ask whoever invited you and we make sure we'll get those answers for you. And so I'm super excited to start. I'm gonna do a quick little introduction for everybody and then I'm gonna start the Q and A here in just a minute. So on our top, my top right, which is right there, we have the Miss Lynn Knowles out of Florida. She just recently moved. So I don't actually know what city she's in currently. Which city? Right now I'm in Clearwater and I'm moving to Tarpon Springs. Tarpon Springs she's moving to. All right, so Lynn Knowles, she's the ripe age of 58. We have down below is we have Norma, she's out in Dubai currently. And then, right? Are you back in Texas now? Actually, I'm back. I'm in actually right out in Texas.  So she's global. This lady is doing dynamic things around the world. And then we have the one and only Samantha Rose right below. She's out of Atlanta, Georgia. So super excited to have these ladies on. And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna just briefly let you know I've been doing and teaching keto for nearly 20 years. I'm pretty diverse in the dynamics of lifestyle, nutrition, health, wellness, fitness, vitality and anti-aging. And so I am very passionate about this and ketones have been a big tool of ours to help change a lot of lives. And for 15 years, I taught people just hardcore diets and lifestyle changes.  Unfortunately, most people quit. Over the last six years, when you introduce ketones, drinking ketones and implement a lifestyle that you're willing to follow and willing to grow into and willing to learn, the success is unbelievable and sustainable long-term. And that's something that I think is really important people to realize. This is a long-term solution to health, vitality, performance and the life that you wanna live. So let's get this thing started in the chat. I mean, we have people showing up all over the world right now in the chat, it's pretty cool. But I got Lynn up here and Lynn, if you don't mind, I want you to just share really quickly when you got started, what's your story? What result were you looking for with ketones? What result have you achieved? And then how did you start drinking ketones for the people that just got started? How did you start so that we can get a perspective of how they should start getting started today? Hey, Dustin, hey, everyone. I'm Lynn Knowles, I'm 58 years old and I found ketones three and a half years ago when I was 55. I started because I was really intrigued about all of the benefits. You see all of the things that it does, Dustin. But really, for me, it was about better mobility at 55. I really was getting weak, I didn't feel well and I had a lot of issues going on. So that was what was intriguing me. But the best thing really, and I smile when I say this because every woman out there is gonna smile, guys too probably, is that I lost 20 pounds that I'd been trying to lose for 20 years. And I mean that, like I had put on 20 pounds, couldn't you lose it no matter what I tried and I tried everything. Well, I'm gonna stop you because you guys don't know this, Lynn, she never says it, I don't know why. But Lynn has had a couple of hip replacements. I say this because like her, I got some joint problems as in my 40s as a former athlete, my body's been broken down. So those things make it more challenging to keep your mobility and your health and your body going. So you're looking for any tool you can to kind of get that edge when your body's getting older. Am I okay with saying that, Lynn? I hope I didn't step on any of those, but- Oh, not at all, not at all. I've had both of my hips replaced. One before I found ketones and one after and we can talk about that another time. But absolutely, I mean, life was challenging just trying to do normal things when you need to hip replacements. And you have shoulder issues. I have a shoulder, a bad shoulder, but guess what? It's not that bad anymore since I found ketones and that for me has been a major thing.  I feel great. You asked how I started drinking ketones. I started out with one a day, which was what was recommended to me. And remember, this was three and a half years ago when we were a brand new baby company. Morning, afternoon. I drank one in the morning around 10 o'clock. And it lit me up. I started having great energy, better focus almost immediately. And I knew that this was something I wanted to continue. I drank one a day for 30 days because no one told me that it was okay to drink two back then to tell you the truth. And now that's like, we know that is the best thing to do is to drink two per day. I started drinking two per day the second month and within 90 days, Dustin, I think you might have the picture. It looks like I lost 30 or 40 pounds, but at that point, I think I'd lost 17. And that's the same shirt. I still have that top. I don't have it on tonight. But I was sweating. It's not the same smile. It's not the same smile. That's for sure. That smile is full of life right there. That's pretty cool. Dustin, the one on the left, y'all, listen, that was a lady who was in a lot of distress, a lot of issues going on. And that was a fake smile. I tell everyone every day, I could put on a fake smile like no one. But that one on the right, that's real exuberance and vitality back in my life. Awesome. So let me ask a couple more questions. You just got started. You started drinking at 10 a.m. Did you eat before? Did you eat after? How did you change your diet at all? And what did that look like if you did? Okay. I followed what you said to do, which was be mindful of carbs and sugars. So I became kind of an investigator of the labels and started going towards more, things that didn't have labels on them, like vegetables and meats. And I did what you said to do. I'm a rule follower when it came to it. I wanted results. So I did what you said to do and I didn't eat unless I was hungry. So for me, that meant intermittent fasting, which I kind of already was sort of a natural intermittent fasting. I never was a big breakfast eater. So I didn't eat until about 12 o'clock every day.  And I did that for 90 days and that was the results. Now did you consume alcohol at any time during that? Yes, I did. Okay, I just had to check. I live in a wine country here. It's hard to get around here and not have a glass of wine. I was 55 back then, of course. I was drinking a little bit of wine, a little bit of champagne. And if I drank anything, I just didn't do the high carb mixers with it, right?  And so I really want to ask these questions because this is real. And when I get out there and do my coaching, I'm kind of like, do this. And for some of you that are like, just tell me exactly what to do, so I'm gonna follow that. I'm gonna give you all that in a little bit, but I wanted to, and we're gonna talk about this fasting thing that you mentioned, because I want people to really see the raw, a real of what people do instead of what we were telling you to do but what we do. She does shots of tequila all the time. I'm just kidding. No, you're not kidding. You know it's true. I love tequila, I'm a connoisseur, and I do have it occasionally. Awesome. So what's gonna move down here? We're gonna go to Norma. Now Norma is, she's an adventurous young lady. No, not only she spent times over in Saudi Arabia, she's back in Texas, but Norma, why did you want to get started initially? Like what was the real reason and how long have you been drinking ketones? Hey everybody, Norma Wilson here. I started when I was 50 and initially why I started was because I kept a friend of mine introduced me to it and she was saying, you know, it's got all these benefits of fat loss and focus and energy and being calm. And I was just going through certain issues at the time and everything I tried just wasn't working and she kept saying, try it, try it, try it finally. I just decided to try it, but I was out to prove to her that this product wouldn't work.  And at the time, I mean, I drank one because like Lynn said back then when I started it four years ago, we weren't told to drink two or I didn't know it was an option to drink two. I just barely drank one because I didn't even believe in the product at the time. So it wasn't until I started drinking it and started feeling better because I was crying a lot. I was moody. There's a lot of things again going on for women who are... Your hormones are changing a bit at the end if you were safe. Can you tell them really quick what your son said? I think it was your son that said that. Yes, exactly. And then I'm gonna ask you a question. Okay. So after I started drinking it a few weeks later, my son came home and I remember this vividly to the day of what we were wearing, it was this dramatic to me when he came to me and he said, mom, I am so glad to see you smiling again. And I said, what do you mean? I'm always smiling and happy. He's like, no, you were crying and you were the B word.  And I'm just happy to see you smiling again. And that's the honest truth. Right, thank you for that. And you said that took a couple weeks and your body started changing and shifting with that? Yes. Yeah, it's about three and a half weeks. When I started feeling, you know, the sleep was immediate. Probably within the first four days, I felt the sleep, immediate. So how did you start? Did you drink in the morning, afternoon? Kind of what did you do with your diet when you got, when you got started, how did you do it? And then like I said, I'm gonna go through some fine tuning as we go along here guys. Okay, so when I first started, again, I was out to prove that this was not a good product. And so I ate breakfast. I did nothing but just add a drink sometime during my day. It wasn't any specific time. But as I started drinking the ketones, it naturally made me not want to eat. It kept me satiated and kept me from craving the sweets that I was having. So when I got up, after a few weeks, I started mixing them and having them first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. And it kept me satiated. So I wasn't having breakfast. Sorry if there's a phone in the background. You can hear that. You're good, you're good. But that's what helped me kind of like intermittent fast. I didn't even know at the time what intermittent fasting meant. So, but I was skipping those calories in the morning. So it helped me stay satiated till about lunchtime. And then that's when I really got back into researching what this product really was about. And that's actually how I got started in the business, to be honest. Wow, awesome.  Like, you're gonna hear from Sam in just a second. We need, she and I need to see, we want to see the exact plan. I'm gonna give you some really kind of, some really focused things that you can focus on here in just a bit. But I wanted people that are getting started to realize you can't screw this up. As long as you're drinking the ketones and learning to listen to your body and you're patient through the process, the hero is here. Let this become the hero. And there is some windows that it can take time, meaning that there's an adaptation phase. There's a scientist that said that, it can take up to six to eight weeks for your body to get fully adapted to metabolically use ketones efficiently. So if some of you might be expecting results to happen overnight and, or maybe your body to shrink away overnight, well, it might take some time. I see Michael on here and he's down 28 pounds, but his body has to also get healthy, through that journey. And his body's prioritizing that. So I just want everybody to keep in mind, you can't mess this up unless you quit. That's the only really mess up that's going to happen. But we're going to get some, some really good details here in a minute. Now, Samantha has a different story. She's also at a different phase of her life. And Samantha's down in Atlanta, Georgia. And when I, when I first saw the picture of Samantha, let's just say that she wasn't the picture of health. And she, but she was pursuing and looking for better. And it's been amazing watching how she's transcended and changed your body. So Samantha, I would love to know, A, a little bit about your story and B, how did you get started? What did you drink in the morning? How did you change your diet? And everything else? Yeah. Well, hi, hi everybody. My name is Samantha. And like Dustin said, I'm from Atlanta, Georgia. And I got introduced to ketones five years ago in February. It'll be almost five years. And, you know, my friend introduced them to me. And it was a friend of mine who I trusted, who we would always share like health tips and supplements and cool things like that. So he handed me a packet actually and he brought it to my house. And he was like, you're gonna like this stuff. It's gonna make you feel good.  And I was like, now I look back at it.  But that's what he said to me.  And I was at a place where I was fresh out of a really bad relationship. Like Dustin said, I wasn't in the healthiest state. It's crazy because I would work out every day and I thought that I was healthy, but I was actually not eating healthy, not making good choices with food, not sleeping well. I was unmotivated. I was faking a smile on my face every day because I was trying to set that standard for my kids.   That's where I was. That's where I felt I was. And it just, it wasn't a good place. So for those of you guys who can relate to me on that, this drink literally, the first day I felt it a little bit and the second day I felt it more. I actually drank two on the second day because I was kind of skeptical too. I was like, was that the drink that made me feel good? Because it did. This drink made me feel good. It brought me back to life. I always describe it as it lit my brain up like a Christmas tree. Like, it wasn't the full effect on day one, but it was definitely something. And it was a major shift enough for me to notice. And that day I just felt so good and alive and I didn't change anything about my diet or anything. The next day I drank two, I had a dance party with my kids. I was like lunging with my laundry basket with the music on in my house. I don't even know what within me, but the ketones, I call it happy juice. It is my happy juice. And yeah, that's how I got started. It completely brought me back to life, especially after 30, 60, 90 days. Oh, I think you're muted, Dustin.  Did you open in the morning? Did you do it in the afternoon? Oh yeah, so I did drink it in the morning because I was trying, I was pursuing better. Like you said, I was like, okay, I want to wake up and I want to drink the drink and I want to feel good, but I wasn't doing anything else different. I was literally just drinking the drink in the morning. Introducing ketones, I love it. And then you'd have another one in the afternoon after you just got started a couple of days. So really quick for everybody just as, and I got, ladies don't go anywhere because I got some more questions for you all, but. So it's a pack, right? You have caffeine and caffeine free. If your pack's arrived yet, great. You'll know what this is. It hasn't arrived.  Same thing, by the way, just a packaging component. Pour it in a shaker bottle like this. You can, there it is, Samantha has the pack right there. You can keep the, you can actually drink this warm. Ladies, y'all, I get kind of chilly. That's why I got a onesie on. I had to show off my onesie. I get chilly. So I sometimes in the afternoon, I drink it on ice. In the morning, I often just drink it with warm water and I think it tastes delicious.  If it's too sweet, add more water, less sweet, add less water, drink one in the morning. And if you hear anything, every one of these ladies start out with one in the morning and then they move to two at some point and remember, we're all on our own path. And we're going to talk a little bit about, you know, if you have a cost challenge with this, then we're going to talk about the free product program and all the savings of ketones in just a second. We're going to talk about those components. But what I want everybody just to hear is that when you're getting started, you can't really mess this up. We do have a few systems. If you're like Samantha and I and you're really like, I need to be organized. I need to be told what to do. There is, we have a really cool challenge. We have one challenge starting in December on our Facebook group, but you can go to challenge.com.com slash go and you can actually do the 10 day challenge. It walks you through every step of the way and teaches you how to do that. You can start with one serving a day. You can move up to two. You can go back to one. There isn't a wrong way to do that. And it's going to give you the guidance. What I found is that when people are getting started, the most important thing, and we're going to talk about plateaus and some fat loss here in a second, a little bit more specifically and a little bit of performance also. But what I found when people start, if they have the right expectation, meaning that I'm going to try it for 10 days and if it doesn't change my life, I'm done. That's not the right expectation, by the way. I'm going to try it for 60, 90 days. I'm going to change my life and do what everybody else has had success do, which means that they commit it to the journey of letting it work in their body, right? It took my wife six weeks. All these ladies said they noticed a different thread away. My wife, six weeks later, before she goes, it works. And it's changed her life completely in so many ways over the last six years, but it took her a little longer. My sister, it took eight weeks and my sister's now down 100 pounds. Just eight weeks, she didn't lose a pound. But if she would have quit any time before that, she'd probably be over 200 pounds overweight at the moment, the way she lived her lifestyle. Now she lives a different one. So when you're getting started, usually you drink one in the morning. First thing in the morning, within the first couple of hours, eat when you're hungry, stop when you're full and start making conscious decisions. Look at the labels and make the best low-carb decisions as possible, meaning eat healthier, high-quality foods. I like to say prioritize protein, eat proteins, and try to find as many good vegetables, even a little fruits fine, as you can when you get started. And then if you're looking to maximize some other components, there's some fine-tuning things that you can do. Now, does anybody use this before like a workout or activities at all? Does anybody do this before use the product? You guys work out? Okay, so how would you use it during your workout? Would you use it before or do you drink it at the gym? Kind of tell me what you do with your using it for a workout. And, well, if you don't want me going first. And I actually, after I started drinking the ketones, it made me feel so much better. And I was never a workout. I mean, at the time I was 50, the last time I worked out was literally the last time I ran a half marathon when I was the age 30.  Didn't lift weights, nothing, no walking, nothing. But after I started drinking the ketones and got the energy, I started using them about 40, I would drink them about 45 minutes when I first got up in the morning, 45 minutes prior to a workout. And then I'd go to the gym and I was powering through my workouts. I was like, oh my gosh, Norma, you're not just walking, you're actually running on a treadmill, which I hadn't done in 20 years. And it made me very confident that after three months of doing that, I actually signed up for my first half iron man. And I feel my feeling with the ketones. I kid you not. That's my whole journey. My whole Instagram is about that. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Anybody else, Lynn, Samantha, you guys wanna talk about when you do activity and fitness, how do you drink it?  So that's great. So I'm happy to share. You said earlier, I have had two hip replacements. So I had a lot of challenges and working out was not something I was able to do when I first started ketones. I was not able to work out. After I started drinking ketones, I started being able to. And now what I do, Dustin, is basically resistance weight training three days a week where I used to when I was younger, when I was Samantha's age, I was like out killing it. I was trying to run five miles. I was doing all of these crazy things that really beat my body up more. And literally, Dustin, you know this, raised cortisol levels to the point where it made it almost impossible to lose that extra fat that I wanted to. But now what I do, Dustin, is I start my morning off a little bit different now than I used to. I get up in the morning and I have mydoplex, our electrolytes. I drink that first thing in the morning with about 20 ounces of water. And then about a half an hour or 45 minutes before I'm either ready to get out and go about my day or I'm going to the gym. I have to drink this now. I love this, our unleashed version, which yeah, it's an incredible, an incredible product. I love it. I love it because I am older. I think it does help me with a lot of different components that I need. And when I'm in the gym, like I have my weight bearing ability now is so much more than it used to be. Dustin, before ketones, I promise you guys, I couldn't pick up a gallon of milk and that is horrible, a horrible feeling because my hands would not allow me to. Now I'm holding 25 and 30 pound weights in each hand doing different things. It's incredible. So I love that transformation. You bring it right before you go to the gym, on the way to the gym. I start drinking it as I'm getting dressed to go to the gym and drink it. The gym's about 20 minutes away. So by the time I'm there, I still have maybe a little bit left and I drink that while I'm working out.  I know the trainer a little bit, girl.  Come on, but she's getting that excitement back. That's super awesome. And we talked about earlier, Lynn's like, I put on five pounds of muscle mass and at my age, that's really important. I told her, I go, you can't say that on the call because women freak out if you hear I gain weight. And I'm like, well, we shouldn't say that. Maybe we'll just say you got stronger but the reality is as we get older, we want to stay strong. And Lynn has gained muscle strength. It's the strength that, it's not more. It's what she lost over the last 25 years. It's not, she bulked up. If you look at Lynn, she's not bulky at all. She got her strength and vitality back that she had lost. And that's what ketones will do because not only they help you get more active but you can use them as a tool before your workout. Can I say this, Dustin, about the five pounds? Because you're right, it freaks people out. Honestly, everybody out there, my clothes fit exactly the same as they did when I didn't have that five extra pounds of muscle mass on it. I am stronger, but my body transformed and leaned out. So it's a different thing when we say it. It's not bulked at all, ladies. It's strength and we need that. It won't bulk you up but it'll make you feel good and look good too. Samantha, I know you do yoga, Samantha. And to be honest, I just learned that a few minutes ago. I didn't actually know that. I didn't know that. I don't know Samantha for years. I didn't know she did yoga. So as somebody that does yoga, do you use ketones before you work out? I absolutely do. So when I first started drinking ketones, I was working with a trainer and I was like 11% body fat, like muscle girl, right? And same thing, my trainer said the same thing. He was like, oh my gosh, what are you drinking? Like you're on fire. Like I was just ready to keep going. So that was back then. And now I still do my strength training, my weight training. I do my yoga a couple of times a week then I do strength training. This is how I have my whole plan, okay?  And I always drink the Unleashed on the days that I know I'm going to the gym. Now it's probably like an hour and a half before I get to the gym because I take my kids to two schools and whatever and drive there and stuff. But on the days that I don't go to the gym, I drink the Nat instead of the Unleashed. So the Unleashed like Lynn mentioned gives us like that extra boost. So I drink the Nat and then my second serving, I am hands down in love with the fueled by female formula. I thought I had oats back here. I love it so much. I love the flavor. I love all the added vitamins. Yes, that has been my second serving. And it's not available at the moment, y'all. So don't go asking for it, but hopefully soon. Oh, well it's coming. It's got to be coming back. I hope it is. I don't know honestly, but I hope it is because I love it. I mean, I bought six boxes. It's coming back. It is going to win. But that's what I do. It honestly, I don't like to drink it during a workout. I've just never been the person that likes flavors. So I drink it before I get there. I give it time to like sit and chill and you will feel incredible just throughout your day in general regardless. Awesome. And what I'm doing here too, if you can read the screen, you can see that I'm putting some of the, if you guys have questions in the chat, throw them out there and I'll answer those questions. But also I'm going to share some of them to the screen so people can see how other people are doing it. But if you're into fitness, and here's the thing about working out or performance.  You have a Christmas shopping. You can use any, this product before you have to go push your body, mind or emotions to do something big. You're going to want to use it about 45 minutes around the way to doing that. And that's what you kind of heard here. A consensus is like 45 minutes, 25 minutes, 30 minutes kind of before you get ready to go perform and you got to find your desired flavor, right? I use the Unleashed also, which is a little bit more caffeine, a little bit more key tones. It gives you a little peak in performance. But the Keto Nat is great, which is what most of you have right now. You can play with that. You can evolve into using the Unleashed if you want to start becoming active. But here's the reality is 85% of people that come to our team and work with us, they don't actually work out at all. And maybe they are afraid of working out, afraid of fitness. You can use this before a walk. You can use this as a tool to start getting you back into fitness like Norma and like Glenn because they've missed that opportunity. And so keep this in mind is that we want people to start moving their body more. And that's why we talk about performance, not just everything else because this is truly a performance tool that helps you perform at burning body fat, perform mentally, emotionally better, physically better. And that's the secret of key tones. But before I got a couple of questions here I'm going to answer. And then I'm going to do is we're going to talk about that plateaus and maximizing fat loss. We only got about two minutes so we're going to do this kind of quick. Somebody asked, is it matter if I drink caffeine free one in the morning? It doesn't. My wife is, and I primarily, I do caffeine and caffeine free both. The caffeine will accelerate the amount of key tones because caffeine is an accelerant of absorption. So you might feel like it gives you a little bit more lift with the caffeine but you're still getting the same amount of key tones maybe not the same speed of absorption. So it's completely okay to use the caffeine free. My wife had been doing caffeine free for almost six years. She rarely ever uses the caffeine and it works extremely well. I use both and it works extremely well. So that's a personal preference. So people that might have coffee in the morning they may not want extra caffeine so they use the decaf or ketonat. Some people like to do both, caffeine, the coffee and the ketonat. Typically it's okay, there's not a lot of caffeine in our product anyway so it's not like you're overloading your system. So I hope that answered that question. I've just checked in any other questions but here's what I wanted to talk about.   I've had somebody lose 75 pounds in like four and a half months. That's right. I've had somebody lose 45 pounds. Just actually some relatives have lost 35. I have friends that have lost 45, 50, 75 pounds. Awesome, Samantha. Anywhere 10, 20, 50, 100 pounds a friend of mine is actually she's been in a wheelchair for a long time and she called me the other day that she danced for the first time in her kitchen for 15 minutes and it was like the most hard fall ever, yeah. So I just found out that this onesie is my wife's not mine, that's why it's probably a little tight. I didn't know, I have a bum shoulder I can't use so I just threw it on and went for it. So we have people, literally my sister's down 100 pounds of body fat. We have people down over 245 pounds, 150 pounds. I mean, the stories keep running. We have people that are down 70 pounds in a wheelchair that can't go out and run marathons, right? They're doing the best they can with what they have.  It's about mood like normal. It's about getting that health and vitality back that Samantha was looking for. It's about joint health and anti-aging vitality that Lynn was looking for. And in return, they all got healthier, live better and they all nutritionally probably take care of themselves better because ketones are a tool that help us make better decisions. It's a provides a sustained energy. But if you're kind of like you're bent on that you have to lose weight and that's how you're gonna judge the product.  Keep in mind, it can take up to eight weeks for this to burn and turn on. So be patient and don't stop before you get to that place.  I want you to put it in the chat.  And I'm gonna talk about plateaus and break a plateau.  You're gonna wanna drink the product at minimum once a day, first thing in the morning.  Somewhere around noon it could be 11, it could be one, no sweat. And you're gonna focus on a lower carb option, prioritizing protein. So a piece of protein, low carb vegetables. Listen, it could be broccoli spinach, carrots, rutabagas, a salad, it could be a burger without a bun and a steamed broccoli with some butter on it. What you don't wanna do is go crazy high fat. You just wanna focus on low carb, especially when you're starting out because it takes time to learn how to do dietary changes. You don't wanna change a lot really fast because it kind of can mess your system up. So I'd rather you just focus on low carb initially. For 30, 60 days, focus on low carb if fat loss is your goal. Then what you're gonna do in the afternoon is you're gonna have an optional second serving. So Lola, three years down 100 pounds. Boom, Tina, one year down 30 pounds. Janna said 10 months, but I don't know, she didn't give a weight. JD's going to lose. JD's like, I'm going to lose 100 pounds. JD, a big shout out to you. He just got back started, pretty awesome. So optional one in the afternoon.  It'll turn that off so that you can have a nice dinner and feel calm and confident about it, okay? So in the afternoon, it's an optional one. If you're somebody that's doing really well and you feel great, then you don't have to rush that. So I just want everybody to make sure that you understand that this is a simple process. It's about consistency over time that makes it's gonna work really, really well. So for dinner, you're gonna have a prioritized protein and a low carb vegetable. Does it mean you can't ever have fruit? No, you can have some fruit. 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So thank you very much for joining us today for this webinar on the Global Flourishing Study and Introduction to Wave 1 Sample Data. My name is Leslie Markham, the Program Manager for this study at the Centre for Open Science and I'm joined today by fellow presenters Brian Nosek, Executive Director of the Centre for Open Science and Theresa Stankov, the Data Manager for this project. Mark Call, Product Owner for the Global Flourishing Registry will be providing his expertise with the Q&A and we have Amanda Stoller from our Communications team ready to help with any technical difficulties and also to help answer questions around getting the word out about this study to the community. Please add any questions you may have to the Q&A rather than the chat and we'll try and answer some of them directly in the response box and we'll have plenty of time at the end of our presentations to answer more questions and we'll also follow up with any questions we don't get to after the webinar. Please note that this webinar is being recorded, the recording will be sent to all people who register for this webinar and it'll also be used as a recorded section for the two upcoming moderated webinars for people joining in different time zones around the world. So it's my pleasure to introduce Brian Nosek, Executive Director of the Centre for Open Science to provide an overview of the Global Flourishing Study. Over to you Brian. Thank you Leslie. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening wherever you are in the world tuning in. We're delighted to have you here for introducing the Wave 1 sample data from the Global Flourishing Study. I am going to give you a brief introduction just about the context of the study and then Leslie and Teresa and others will provide some very practical insights for how it is you're going to get access to the data and make the best use of it you can for your scholarly questions. Leslie, you can move ahead to the next slide. This is a unique study. It is unique in a variety of ways. The place where it's not unique is on investigating questions related to flourishing, life satisfaction, health, mental and physical, pursuing understanding of meeting and purpose, character and virtue. These are topics that have a variety of different research applications across the social sciences and many researchers are pursuing questions advancing theory related to these topics. But what the Global Flourishing Study adds is a couple of unique dimensions to expand and improve the investigation of these areas of research. One is that the sample is very large. It would be 200,000 or more participants in total allowing for precise estimation of the effects that get investigated using this data set. A second feature is that it's a very substantial survey with a variety of different measures that provide a great degree of flexibility for what questions to ask and how best to answer and address them with the data set. A third feature is that it provides the opportunity to examine both the variability and generalizability of the phenomena across a variety of different countries. A total of 22 countries are included in the overall data set and each of them will provide a context for being able to make some inferences about whether these things appear to occur globally as you investigate them or are situated in the cultures and contexts in which the data collections have occurred and the varieties that appear in that. The last key feature is that it is a longitudinal study that the same survey will be conducted over a five-year time span allowing investigations of change over time and also allowing modeling that can help to reduce the number of plausible explanations for the relationships that are observed to get closer and closer to making confident causal inferences about these kinds of questions that are very difficult to investigate causally in normal data collection circumstances. So that unique combination all in a single data set will really, we believe, help to advance these areas of research substantially compared to what's been possible before. You can move to the next slide. It is important for us to call out here that this is a community effort, the role of the Center for Open Sciences on data management, making the data accessible and providing the guidelines and guidance for how to use that data as effectively and rigorously as possible. Gallup is responsible for the data collection parts of the project, seeking out representative samples for each of these and then managing the data collection and engagement with those samples in each nation. And then the substantive expertise on these research questions and the survey design is provided by researchers at Harvard and Baylor universities who are the leads of the overall conceptualization of the project. And you can see here on the slide that it is generously funded by a team of funding organizations and foundations that contributed a substantial investment to make this data collection possible. The next slide. One of the key things that we bring to this project is to conceive of it as an opportunity to be an exemplar for how research can be more rigorous and more transparent to both make sure that the use of the global flourishing data is done as effectively as possible, but also to provide inspiration and aspiration for others in these areas of research to emulate the types of rigor and transparency that you as researchers will use in applying this data. So there are a number of different features of this project that ensure that it will be as open and usable as an accessible as possible for the research community. Teresa and others on the team are working very hard to make sure that the data is highly usable, easy to understand, easy to apply. We have created and will manage a registry so that researchers can do their planning as clearly and effectively as possible for how they're going to engage with the data prior to having access to the actual data so that the inferences that one draws from that research can be very clearly distinguishing between what was planned and advanced and the hypotheses that were tested and confronted versus what was discovered after the fact and unplanned research or often referred to as the distinction between confirmatory versus exploratory analysis. So that registry will be a key part of the workflow that you'll experience in going and getting access to these data and then making use of it. Another feature is that we are trying to encourage early data, these rigorous practices, by providing early data access to those researchers that decide to submit their research designs as registered reports to participating journals or just pre-register their research so that they can provide that clarity between what was planned in advance and what was discovered after the fact. If you're not familiar with registered reports as a publishing model, don't worry, you're going to get an introduction to that. It is an exciting model that's been adopted by more than 300 journals that relieves the pressure to have to find particular things and instead focuses the review process on asking important questions and designing good methods to test those questions and then you get guaranteed that your results will be published regardless of the outcome rather than feeling like you have to get certain kinds of outcomes, positive results, novel results in order to get the publication. And finally, our team has been working hard to provide a variety of different materials. If any of these practices are new to you, pre-registration, register reports, data sharing, and otherwise, to make it easy so that we can lower the barrier to entry and improve this as both a rigorous research expedition but also an education and learning opportunity for how it is these practices can occur, can be done well, and how they might be translated to other research applications that you might pursue on your own time in other contexts. So I'm going to hand it now back to Leslie to introduce the ways to access the data and how you can engage with it. So thanks Leslie and thanks everybody. Thank you very much, Brian. That was a great introduction. So ways to access the data. I just want to start with a few practical comments. At the moment, we have Wave 1 sample data, which is the Sweden data set that's available now. And you'll hear this frequently said throughout this webinar. This data set cannot be published because it is perturbed and randomized. So please use it to develop your studies but don't publish it. And then the Wave 1 global data will be available in the coming months. Gallup is still in the field trying to wrap up some final surveys. And so we're hoping that we will be able to release that data in the winter and do make sure that you sign up to receive emails so that we can make sure that we stay in touch and let you know when that's available. So Brian has already said, this is a longitudinal data set. And so to be able to do rigorous research designs with this Wave 1 where it's not longitudinal yet, we are requiring you to either construct a synthetic longitudinal study by linking this global flourishing data to other data sets or by using the retrospective childhood assessments that are within the Wave 1 data. You can find more information about that on our website, but you must make sure at least one of the questions or hypotheses is tested with this synthetic longitudinal design. So there are three ways to access the data. You can prepare and submit a registered report with pre-registration for early access. You can prepare a pre-registration independent of a journal registered report workflow for early access again, or you can wait for the data to be publicly released, which will be about one year after its initial release date. So once you've added your pre-registration to our registry, you'll receive a view-only link and it'll be emailed to the person who actually submitted the pre-registration. That researcher is free to share that link with your colleagues that you have added to the pre-registration. Please don't share the link with other researchers. We want to make sure that we capture all of the studies in the registry and so if you have colleagues who want to also get the data, please ask them to go to our website, complete the pre-registration template and we'll be happy to provide the link directly to them. So let's just talk a little bit about registered reports. So this is a novel publication format and it offers the opportunity to receive peer reviews before analyzing the data and it can guarantee the publication of well-designed studies regardless of whether the results are positive or negative. So registered reports aim to change the reward system for earning publication. So in the standard model, researchers design their study, collect and analyze their data, write a paper and send it to a journal for peer review. The authors decide where and when to send their papers and editors and reviewers decide on the value of the research based on the results. Publication bias produces published literature that looks more beautiful than reality, particularly with an inflation of false discoveries and an exaggeration of the strength of evidence for true discoveries. The first step of a registered report submission is similar to any research project. Authors submit a stage one registered report in which they provide the motivation for the research question, preliminary evidence and the proposed methodology. They write down this study proposal as a preregistration. With registered reports, the initial phase of peer review moves to before the results are known. The preregistration is submitted to a journal that accepts registered reports and we do have a list on our website of journals that we think are appropriate for this study. And this is when that journal receives your preregistration, it's called a stage one review. The date has not been analyzed at this point and so the peer review judges your proposal based on the quality and design and the importance of the research question. And the editor and reviewers evaluate the submission with two considerations in mind. Firstly, is this an important question? And secondly, is the proposed methodology an effective investigation or that question? And the journal can decide to reject the submission, ask for more information or provide an in principle acceptance. And this acceptance means that if researchers follow the plan, their study will be published regardless of whether the results are statistically positive or negative. After the in principle acceptance, researchers can analyze the data. Please don't look at the data until you have in principle acceptance if you're going for a registered report. So then you're going to be analyzing your data and then you're going to resubmit as a stage two registered report. Deviations are fine, but you should clearly document them. And if the deviations from the planner are substantial, then you should bring the journal editor into the conversation just to make sure that you don't end up with a rejection at stage two. So the last step, the researchers submit the final manuscript peer review. And this is called stage two review. Now the manuscript includes the data analysis and the conclusions and reviewers check the conclusion. It's not possible that the data is rejected after a negative result is observed, except under rare circumstances where quality checks indicate that the methodological problems led to an uninformative study. The editor and reviewers only assessed whether authors followed the planned methodology and interpreted the results responsibly. The results themselves are not a basis for deciding whether to publish the paper or not. So you may just stop for pre-registration and when you pre-register your research, you're simply specifying your research plan in advance of your study and submitting it to a registry. Pre-registration separates planned confirmatory hypothesis generating and unplanned exploratory hypothesis generating research. Both are important, but being able to distinguish between the two makes your research much more rigorous. A pre-registration is therefore a time-stamped description of your design and analysis plan written before the data has been analyzed. So in doing this, pre-registration helps to prevent confirmation bias, hindsight bias and selected reporting. And it allows for transparent reporting and an increased confidence in the claims that you're making. So that was a very brief introduction to registered reports and pre-registration. So we do have another sort of part two to this webinar coming up in two weeks' time. And so please do visit our website and sign up for that webinar as well if you'd like to have a more in-depth view of pre-registration and registered reports. And just also just highlighting at this point and I will add this to the end as well and also share my slides. If you need any help, please do contact us at globalflourishing.co.io. We're there to help with one-in-one walkthrough entering your pre-registration, office hours or to answer any questions. We're particularly interested in helping this be a community effort so that we want to hear from you as well as us helping you. And we would love you to help us make our FAQ section more rigorous by adding comments to us about things that you think other researchers would find useful. And also we're very interested in making sure that the registry and the pre-registration template is working well for you. So we would really be delighted to set up some one-in-one calls with people to walk through their pre-registration with them. And Mark Call, who's on this webinar today, is a human factors specialist and would really like some feedback to make sure that the registries were working well for all researchers. So do consider that. Okay, so now we're going to do a quick introduction to the website. So the website is a sort of microsite within the Centre for Open Science website. And it's basically the access to the data and tools for researchers. There is an additional Global Flourishing Study website which is for the more sort of public facing aspects of the project. If you Google it and end up on that site, you can, there's a tab that says for researchers, click that and you'll end up on our site. You'll see across the top there that there are several tabs. So I'll just walk you through what you're going to find on the site. So under the overview tab, that's all about the study and the commitment to open science and some information about the data. Data access sort of speaks for itself, how to access the data. There's a page about sample data. Theresa will go into more detail about that later, but that's where you're going to find the code book and the links to access the sample data. And we have a lot of resources on the resources tab. Most of them are specific to Global Flourishing Study, but there's also further reading on preregistration and registered reports. And there's also some training materials which I'll mention later. And then the FAQs. On that page, in addition to the FAQs, you'll also find the list of data request agreements. When you submit your preregistration at the end of the form, you'll be asked to confirm various agreements. And if you want to read those agreements ahead of time, you can find those on our website. So these are the real key documents that I really encourage you to read. We have a guide to preregistration and it's got lots of screenshots of the registry and it will take you right the way through how to do a preregistration, how to update your preregistration, etc. There's also a preregistration template, which is a Google Doc that you can make a copy of and use that to develop your research plan. I do encourage you to use that because you can share it with your team and work on it collectively, get something final, and then go to the registry and cut and paste into the boxes on the registry. That said, if you would prefer to work directly in the registry, you can do that. And you can save your preregistration as a draft so you don't lose anything if you need to go back to it. You'll also find the code book on the website. So obviously, take a look at that. And again, if you have some questions, you may well find that they have some answers on that FOQs page. So the other thing you'll find on the website are these training resources. So it's basically six self-guided modules around the why of preregistration and registered reports. They're slides, but they also have a text narrative below, providing you with more details about the content of the slides and obviously all the references. And they also contain tips and links specifically for the Global Flourishing Study and very much focus on the kind of the how to for preregistration and registered reports. So I hope you'll take a look at those. So now let's look at the registry. So what is a registry? It's basically a collection of preregistrations that have been created to publicly share the existence of all performed studies. It increases the availability of study results and reduces publication bias. So to start using the Global Flourishing Study Registry, you'll need to create an open science framework account. And we highly recommend that you link your account to your Orchid ID if you have one. The Open Science Framework, or OSF for short, is a free open source project management and collaboration tool that supports you as the researchers throughout the entire research life cycle from planning to conducting to reporting and discovering research. And the OSF is a product of the Center for Open Science and it's maintained and administered by our staff. So if you have any questions about the OSF you can direct them through that Global Flourishing email as well and we will make sure that they get to the right people to help. So this is a view of the Global Flourishing Registry. This is the sort of the home page and this is where what will house all of the preregistrations submitted for access to the study data. In addition to accessing the guide and the template and the code book on the website, you can also access them here. And again, I highly encourage you to take a look at those as you're developing your pre-registration. So just actually, I've already said this, but this is where using those templates and guides are going to be really helpful. You can see there's a little pink arrow there saying add new. That's just kind of like the first step to get you going. That's where you're going to be pushing add new to start your pre-registration. Now I'm talking a little bit about updating a preregistration on the registry, which is a little bit early to talk about this, but I think it's an important thing to know right from the start. When you submit a preregistration, you're going to be requesting the sample data. You're then going to come back to that same preregistration and update it to request the Wave 1 data. So when you go into the template, you'll see that you can click on requesting sample data or I'm requesting Wave 1 data. Please just make sure that you only click the sample data. You will come back and update to request the Wave 1 data. And the nice thing about this is it means that you can do your preregistration, get your sample data, then come back to that preregistration and update it based on having refined your research questions, your methodology, and then make your requestable Wave 1 data. And you will find all this detail in the preregistration guide. So when you submit a preregistration, the OSF will automatically create a private project for you and your team. Now projects are a flexible tool for your researchers to plan, collaborate, and organize a research study. And because of their flexibility, projects are an excellent place for a team to show their work and refine their ideas. And obviously it is a private space. You can make it public if you want to, but if you want to use it as that sort of collaborative project management space, then you are obviously free to do that. You'll find more details about projects on the Global Flourishing website, and they are linked to the OSF as well. All right, let's talk a little bit about preparing your preregistration. So I think this is a great way of thinking about your preregistration, and thank you to Brian Nosek for coming up with this. So use your preregistration to draft your methods and results section of a journal article. And this helps you think through exactly what you're going to be doing and how you're going to report it. So these are some features of a good preregistration. So you want to have specific steps to answer your research questions, provide details of the statistical tests you're going to use, and what p-value. Think about your methodology and how hypotheses will be tested, what exclusion rules might be applied, and how will you combine variables if you decide to combine variables, and what outcomes will be reported. And can you think of unplanned work that you might do? Add that there. And also try and anticipate any deviations from the plan, and include that. So to be as thorough as you can. And just one little example, which I think is, you know, a good one, but very simple, is instead of saying something like, we're going to report the average, say we're going to report the mean, median, or mode. So do it at that specific level. So just once again, please note that it's only the sample data that's currently available, and also that there is no non-sensitive data currently available.  And if so, do you have an IRB, et cetera? That will not be applicable for this sample data. So you can just ignore that. Okay, I'm going to hand it over now to Theresa to talk us through the sample data access. All right. So yeah, I'll give you guys all an introduction to what this sample data entails. So first of all, the purpose of the sample data set is to allow you to start to plan your analysis before the real wave one data is released. So this sample data consists of just the wave one data from Sweden that we have made various transformations to such that it is informative as to what the data structure is, and what a real data set might look like. But it doesn't contain the real values for the wave one Sweden data. So it is very important to understand that this is not the real wave one data for Sweden, and is therefore unsuitable analysis, it is there to help you plan for your actual analysis once that data is released. So we actually have two sample data sets available, one for researchers who submit a preregistration for their study that contains the data that has been perturbed from its original values, and one available on the GFS website that is both perturbed and randomized. So next slide. The perturbed data has a small amount of random noise added to the data in order to obscure the underlying values. So again, due to this process, the sample data is not suitable for publication. Next slide. So for ratio and ordinal scale data, such as the many questions that have respondents rate their feelings about something on a scale, the perturbation process involved selecting a random number from a normal distribution, rounded, of course, to be a whole number, and adding it to the original value to produce the perturbed value. So the end result is a data set that somewhat resembles the original, but isn't usable in final analysis. And just as a disclaimer here, this is all simulated data that you're seeing, but this is what a real question from the data would be. Next question. To account for the questions that have categorical answers, where perturbing the response value to the next numerical value that it's coded to isn't necessarily meaningful, like it is for the scale data, we chose to randomize a certain percent of the responses into a different category, such that the perturbed data set, again, roughly resembles the original data set in terms of the available answers, but it doesn't reveal the true values of the underlying original data set. Next slide, please. Now, the data set that is available on the GFS website without a preregistration is also randomized in addition to being perturbed. So basically for each of the variables, the values are shuffled into different rows, such that any correlations that might still be discernible between the different variables, even with the perturbation process, will be obscured. Next slide. We also have a code book available on the GFS website to help you interpret the data and see answer values that might not be available in the data from Sweden, such as political parties that might be suitable options in other countries but aren't suitable options for the Sweden data. So this document is a spreadsheet that describes what each column label means, the wording of each question, in English, what type of assessment each question was a part of. So was it a part of the intake survey versus the annual survey, what the different answer values mean, among other things. So this information found in the code book is for all of the Wave 1 data, not just Sweden. So again, you will see those questions that weren't asked in Sweden because they weren't applicable. So there's questions like in countries where Buddhism is the primary religion. It's only asked in those questions or in those countries but not necessarily in Sweden. And again, those questions that have answers that are country specific due to things like political party or income, those are also found in the code book. So the sample data is provided in CSV format, and this is actually a question I was in the process of answering, but I'll answer it out loud instead. The data is available in CSV format, but we have also made the sample data available as .rds files such that the question and value labels are attached to the data for your convenience. So you can use that or you can use the CSV. And the current plan for the final data set is that we will release it as .csv and also as an SPSS file because that is the format in which we receive it from Gallup. So that is the current plan for the file types that we will be releasing the sample data as. And yeah, thank you very much. Thank you very much, Theresa. That's really great and very helpful. I would just add one additional thing as well that the Gallup questionnaire development report is also available on our website and it's under FAQs if you want to have a deeper look into how the questionnaires were developed. Thank you, Theresa. So now I just want to talk a little bit about whether you would like to participate in some research opportunities with us. So the Centre for Urban Sciences is expanding the knowledge base on the efforts of registered reports and pre-registration with a randomized control trial and a survey in the Global Flourishing Study. And this work is being supported by a National Science Foundation grant. So the study measures the effects of the impact of registered reports on timelines from conception to publication, publication outcomes, so which studies are ultimately published and researchers' beliefs and experiences with registered reports and pre-registration. So this is just a diagram of the participant workflow. So there are four arms, so participants can agree to be randomly assigned a Global Flourishing Data Access pathway of pre-registration or registered reports and be surveyed on your experience or opt in to be surveyed on your experience with either mechanism after you've completed your registered report or pre-registration submission. Anyone can enroll to be randomly assigned a pathway prior to uploading a submission to the Global Flourishing Registry and the main outcomes will be comparing the two randomized participant arms while the self-selected participants will help us better understand selection processes. So we believe that this work could really be potentially transformative to how research is conducted and we encourage you to enroll if you're interested, especially if you want that early access to the Global Flourishing Data Sets but are undecided on whether you want to do a pre-registration or a registered report or if you want to try out a registered report but aren't sure where to start and if you want to be part of a growing evidence collection on pre-commitment devices like registered reports and pre-registration. There's a link on the COS website and as I said before, I will share these slides with you so don't feel like you need to write down that relatively long URL there. So once again, just reiterating that we are definitely here to help so do feel free to email us, arrange a call to walk through your pre-registration and definitely join our email list to receive updates.


Happy Canada! We're Canadian. We're not going to let a little weather slow us down, are we? You know, I'm pretty confident that we're breaking records here on Parliament Hill. And we should be, because today we're celebrating Canada 150! I'd like to acknowledge that we are on the ancestral lands of the Algonquin people. And I want to thank, I want to start with a thank you to the hundreds of thousands here on the hill coming together in our nation's capital. Thank you for being here. And to the millions more in your homes across the country, maybe watching through the screen door while trying not to burn the hot dog buns on the BBQ. Remember, lightly toasted. Or chilling with friends and neighbors in the local park, festooned in red and white. Thank you for celebrating with us today. To our expat friends and family gathered in far off places like the Maple Leaf Pub in London, or the Big Bite in Hong Kong. Thanks for joining us. We love you and miss you right back. And I have no idea what time it is where you are, but cheers. So, of course, I'd like to thank the Royal Highnesses, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall for being with us today to mark this tremendous celebration. Merci mes amis. 150 years since Confederation. A nice round number that's as good a reason to celebrate as any. To throw a massive party and invite the friends and neighbors. To reflect on our past, to cheer on today and to recommit ourselves to the future. But let's not kid ourselves. Today isn't really our 150th birthday. We're much older than that. Canada and the idea of Canada goes much further back than just 150 years. For thousands of years in this place, people have met, traded, built, loved, lost, fought and grieved. They built strong communities. They worked hard to build better lives for their kids and learned to lean on their neighbors. You learn to lean on your neighbors in this place to get through the long, cold winter nights to thrive in the daunting landscapes that stretch across Turtle Island. And for several centuries already, families have gone through great things. They're looking for a better future for their kids. And they've chosen to build their lives here. And again, the support of the neighbors and those already here have made it possible, both for individual and strong communities to succeed. So, certainly, Canada is much older than its 150th birthday, but let's be honest, Canada is younger too. Several of you will say that our country is only 100 years old. Exactly. When Canadians came from four corners of the country, they united for the first time. When they fought side by side, when they cried and lost time together and celebrated. Victory together in a distant place called Vimy. Well done! We did our best today to resonate with Dieppe, Junot, Kandahar and Jampas. But we took our place on the world stage too through constructive engagement from this crisis in the Suez to the floor of the UN by welcoming the world to come see who we are as we figured out for ourselves with Expos 67 and 86. With Olympic Games in Montreal, in Calgary, in Vancouver. But if we're going to talk sports, maybe we became a nation with the Summit Series in 72 when we all squeezed the stick and we all pulled the trigger. Or was it in 65 when we chose our beloved Maple Leaf flag? Maybe it didn't really happen us becoming a nation until we brought home the Constitution and defined ourselves through the Charter of Rights and Freedoms a mere 35 years ago. So really, I guess 150 years is as good a date as any because it lets us celebrate all of that and so much more today. In 1867, we saw the Canadian Confederation becoming a reality thanks to the compromise and, among other things, the vision of Johnny McDonald and George Etienne Cartier. It was a partnership between four provinces that became something much bigger, an extraordinary, prosperous and generous country, a land where everything is possible. Canada has been blessed with leaders of all stripes who recognized how special this place is. Leaders who believed in the Canadian dream, who built railways and highways and seaways to connect us to each other and to the world. These projects became the backbone of Canada, infrastructure worthy of a great nation. But the story of Canada cannot be confined to grand acts of nation building. The story of Canada is really the story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. The valor of Francis Pegamogabo, the courage of Viola Desmond, the leadership of Thérèse Casgrin, the tenacity of Terry Fox. It's in these people that the true story of Canada is told. Their triumphs are unique, but the values that underpin them are Canadian values. William Lyon McKenzie King said that citizenship was actually a form of public service. He was right. Having Canadian citizenship also means serving Canada. It means believing in something bigger than each of us. Because we have something to be recognized in this country that has given us. Millions of people from all over the world have chosen to live in Canada. Others were lucky to be born here. But our stories are similar. This is where we met our childhood friends. This is where we fell in love for the first time. This is where we raised our children. My friends, we are joined by the most beautiful gift we have ever received. Canadian citizenship! Louis Saint Laurent referred to Canada as a place where people joined their talents without merging their identities. And it's true. Canada is a country made strong, not in spite of our differences, but because of them.  Indeed, we know true strength and resilience flows through Canadian diversity. It's a land of original peoples and of newcomers. Our greatest pride is that you can come here from anywhere in the world, build a good life and be part of our community. We don't care where you're from or what religion you practice or whom you love, you are all welcome in Canada. Let's not forget that if today, Canada is a truly multicultural and open place in the world, it's not the result of a miracle. 150 years ago, the existence of our country even depended on our ability to accept that citizens of the same country could speak different languages, that they could be part of different cultures. It depended on the peaceful and active coexistence between different people, each one of the others. Over time, the bilingual character of our country has become a central and definitive element of our identity and official policy. From one end to the other of the country, we speak French and English, in addition to hundreds of other languages. And so, diversity has always been at the very core of Canada over the centuries.  We may be of every colour and creed from every corner of the world. We may live in British Columbia, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, or Newfoundland and Labrador. But we embrace that diversity while knowing in our hearts that we are all Canadians and that we share a common pride in that red and white flag. But when we come back to our history, we realize that our past is far from being perfect. If many of us celebrate the 150th anniversary of Canada, it is not the case for everyone. During the centuries, Indigenous peoples were victims of oppression. From the moment the first explorers congratulated themselves on discovering a new world. And as a society, we must recognize the mistakes of the past, accept our responsibilities and ensure that each Canadian is a promising future. We have a lot of work ahead of us to reconcile with the First Nations, the Métis Nation, the Inuits. But we have taken this step together. As a country, we have taken the commitment to make relations nation by nation, government by government, from Inuit to the Crown, a priority of the highest importance. This is what we have to remember. We can achieve reconciliation, but in order to get there we must educate ourselves and dedicate our efforts to progress and work very, very hard to see it through over the coming years and decades. It is a choice we make, not because of what we did or what we were, but because of who we are. Let us be known the world over for our integrity, for our compassion and for our never-ending desire to be better so we can do better. The Canadian way. Whether it was building a railway through the Rockies or a quantum computer, Canadians know that better is always possible. Canada's success is not the fruit of randomness, and it will not continue without effort. Our work is now to ensure that each Canadian is a real and equal chance to succeed. We must create an environment in which the middle class and those who work hard will be able to make a better life. And we have to work together to combat climate change, one of the greatest crises facing our planet. It's up to us to leave our kids and grandkids with a better future through a present in which protecting our environment is an obligation, not an option. And we can do it. I know we can. My friends, many of you have come here from great distances. So take a second. Look around and really take in this moment.  Nah, look at us. Canada is being born today. And thanks to all of you, it will be again tomorrow. You know, when we set out in the world, many of us do so with a maple leaf sewn on to our backpacks. But all of us have that maple leaf engraved onto our souls. It's a subtle, quiet pride in knowing that we are blessed to be citizens of the best country on Earth. So be proud of our accomplishments. Be proud of our country for this is Canada and this is home.


My name is Leilani Binjuta. I'm from the Torres Strait. Binjuta originates from Indonesia. Our great-grandfather came across as part of the purling and fishing industry and he married a local lady from here. My Christian name, Leilani, was given to me from my mother's mother who wanted to maintain our links to the Pacific because we also have no way in blood and my father who was a betting man named me after a horse in 1974 at the Corfield Cup that then won the Melbourne Cup so I'm named after a racehorse. I grew up in Cairns and then went to university in Rockhampton. Ten years ago I took up the opportunity to work with foreign affairs and trade. The Torres Strait Treaty which is an agreement between Australia and Papua New Guinea and it encapsulates the traditional rights and custody rights of traditional inhabitants. For the western province coastal villages there are 13 and in the Torres Strait there are 14 communities that fall within the treaty zone or the Torres Strait protected zone and so I'm working with traditional inhabitants on both sides of the border to maintain that level of security and safety we once enjoyed. The Torres Strait Treaty Liaison Office we actually have nine agencies that help implement the treaty on ground that's both federal state and local government so there's a multitude of agencies that help us draw together and coordinate the issues under the treaty and that is we cover immigration, border protection, fisheries, the environment, health and traditional inhabitant issues. The most important ingredient to everything that we do under the treaty is the liaison and discussions that we have with traditional inhabitants on both sides of the border because at the end of the day the treaty works because traditional inhabitants make it work. The connections between Australia and Papua New Guinea or the Torres Strait and western province in particular expands thousands of years, six thousand years plus. It's evolved and it has come to to be a modern day experience if you like for traditional inhabitants. Right in the thick of it we live it and breathe it every day.


Guys, I bought an Xbox One X so that you don't have two. I mean, if you don't own one already. This is my first Xbox in my life, never bought an Xbox before, because there has just never been any exclusive games for any Xbox that caught my attention in the past. So why the hell did I buy one now? Well, I've always been under the impression that the Xbox is this sorta niche and weird console that is for all the people. I've always been on the Nintendo side and PlayStation side. But it was about time that I delve a bit into all the things as well. And first impression, it's nice. It's nice. I like the controller.  I mean, I'm not too happy about the actual analog sticks, but everything else fits so good into the hands. Very ergonomical. So basically, this is what the console looks like. I have the Xbox One X. Yeah, that's a title. Oh my god, the naming of the Xboxes. Just Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One all of a sudden, and the side versions, Xbox One X. Isn't there one called Xbox One S as well? Never mind that. It is a big console. It is heavy. I like the controller. I like that it's black and matte. I also love the startup sound. So I bought an Xbox for one reason. Game Pass. Game Pass is a multi-subscription thing that Xbox does. I have no idea why Nintendo and PlayStation are not doing it as well. I mean, PlayStation has PlayStation now, but it isn't the same. It's like Netflix with games. That is the best description. It's like Netflix with games. You get to see all of these games that they have out on Game Pass. And that means when you have an active subscription, you can download whichever game you want from that. And there are hundreds of games. So when I bought my console, I picked up no games. I actually have an empty console. So Game Pass, all digital. I'm going wild. I'm going crazy with the Game Pass. So you know, I came home, I hooked it up, activated Game Pass. And you know what?  So I'm going to go over some of the games that I have been playing on my new Xbox. Now, I have never played a Halo game before. So I thought now is the time. So of course I downloaded every Halo title. Well, not the spin-off series, but the mainline series like Master Chief Collection and Halo 5. I'm going blind into this. So you know, I started playing number one. So I was playing that and actually one feature just amazed me the most. And that was with a touch of one button press, you can change between the original graphics and the remastered graphics. I was so blown away by that. The game looks good. It feels really smooth. You know, I've been playing a lot of Destiny 2 and Bungie has created the Halo games. So I could really feel that it was a Bungie shooter. Felt really solid. I could really feel that. It was super smooth, fun. I also dipped into all of the other Halo games and they felt super smooth. All of them. So I'm really happy about my first impression with the Halo series. I love first-person shooters and they did not disappoint. Definitely need to play those more. Now Halo is exclusive to Xbox and PC. You can't ever find these games or play them on Switch or PlayStation. I also started on Halo 5, but I'm going to concentrate on the first games first. And another thing is that I've never played any Gears of War games either. So I downloaded Gears 5. I started that. It's an okay first impression, but I need to play it more. It has very nice graphics though, that I can say. Now a game that I really enjoyed. And with the first game that I really enjoyed on Game Pass, there's a game called Recore. And I had never heard about this game before. I'm gonna talk more about Recore in another video actually. So I'm not gonna touch too much into it now. But it is a third-person shooter and it was really smooth. I liked it a lot. I liked the graphics and the setting. And I actually enjoyed the starting of the story as well. Now, Nier Oremara. Everyone has heard about this game, I am sure. And if you haven't, now you have. It is officially now in my ever-growing backlog of games. It's just such a unique looking third-person action game. And I've only just started it, so I have yet to make up an opinion about Nier Oremara. Nier A Tomato. But it is a platinum games game. The people behind Astral Chain, you know. My most recent upload on my channel. My review of Astral Chain. Those people are behind this game. I really like the unique look of this game. So I'm looking forward to trying that more now. I actually played Sea of Thieves again. Because it is on Game Pass, and Ishaman and two of his friends, they were on a galleon sailing and stuff. They were playing Sea of Thieves. And I'm like, I'm gonna join you guys. So we had a lot of fun. Fun going back to that game. But yeah, it's Sea of Thieves anyway. So that is also on Game Pass. More games that I downloaded. They include Outer Wilds. That is not to be confused with Outer Worlds. It's a weird first person, I don't know what to call it. Adventure game, RPG, something, exploration, weird. Anyway, I got a good first impression. So that is one that I want to play more. There's actually Fallout New Vegas on this thing too. So you know, I had to dip a bit into that for nostalgia reasons. And another game that I downloaded is actually Sniper Elite 4. That is so worth it. I recently played Sniper Elite 3 on the Switch, and I beat that game. And number 4 is just as good. If you ever enjoyed Sniper Elite 3, 4 is good. And it is on Game Pass, so you know. I played Subnautica a little bit, but I didn't get into it. There's also 2-point Hospital on this thing. Even though I played that on PCN Switch and, you know, everywhere. I've also started a save file on my Xbox, because 2-point Hospital is just that good. I love that game. No Man's Sky. I finally tried No Man's Sky for my first time. Confusing, but I like it sort of, maybe. You know, I wouldn't recommend it, but I like it, maybe. Gonna give it more of a chance first. Astroneer. Another like, Spacey. There's so many Spacey games on Game Pass. But Astroneer is just cute, and I've had my eyes on it on Steam, actually. I've had it in my wishlist on Steam for, I want to say, a bunch of years. But it is kind of hard to get into. A lot of things to learn, because it is like a space building sort of game. Sort of. Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie are also on Game Pass. I had to dip into those two. Fable. I do not recommend Fable on an Xbox, because I felt that the frame rate stuff, the smoothness, wasn't so smooth. Play that on PC if you can. A strong PC if you can. But surprisingly, the game that I have played definitely the most is also the game with the smallest storage size. That is Forager. Forager is also out on Switch and PlayStation. It is actually a fun pixel graphics, mining, collecting, and crafting game. It is also made by one man. It has skills to unlock.  I don't know, I lost track of time with that game, so it was really fun. Lots of crafting stations, even to the point where it looks kind of messy. So, you know, other games on Game Pass, there are actually quite a bit of other good games that I already have played on other systems. And they include Witcher 3, The Outer Worlds, Rage 2, Minecraft Dungeons, Serious Skylines, My Time at Porsche, Fallout 7 to 6, Dragon Quest XI is even also on Game Pass. So do I recommend getting an Xbox One X? I have no idea, you know. That depends on you. For Game Pass only, you could also try Game Pass on a PC, but if you don't have like a good PC, yeah, maybe. But I don't know, like Corona prices has pushed prices up on consoles. I'm under that impression when I was checking, you know, pricing. So the Switch is also really expensive now. I think it's a Corona thing. So the biggest pro of getting an Xbox is Game Pass, obviously. Like Game Pass, that is a no-brainer. You are then able to just play, or at least just try a bunch of games and get knowledge on a lot of games that people are talking about. You can say that you have at least tried a lot of the games without any big investment into it, other than, you know, having the console in the first place and having an active Game Pass subscription. There are a lot of Xbox 360 games on the Game Pass list. Another thing is that you can cross play with PC, which is really nice. Only on Xbox. So I don't know if you need one yourself. I mean, if you have a Switch, you're good, probably. PlayStation also, you're good, probably. But I thought it was fun.  So you know, I'm gonna keep my Game Pass and use the console for exploring games. And it also just makes it easier for me to discover games that I normally wouldn't discover. So yeah, that was all for today, folks. 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Is this going to be the year that somebody dethrones the Kansas City Chiefs for the top spot in the AFC West? Let's see if the Chargers can do it. Now they've got their buy during week 5, which is pretty early, so they're going to start their season 2 and 2, losing to Miami and Las Vegas. Then they come back from buy to beat the Cowboys, lose to the Chiefs, beat the Bears, and then lose to the Jets at MetLife. Before going on a nice little three game win streak against the Lions, Packers, and Ravens. That comes to an end in New England where I think they're going to lose to the Patriots before going on to beat Denver and Las Vegas, getting two key divisional wins. And then they finish off their season losing to Buffalo at home, but then going on to beat Denver and finishing off against Kansas City. I think they get that game and that helps their case to maybe win the AFC West.