Hello, welcome to this episode sorry, we're a week or two late I have ADHD, as you might know, listen to the show. And with a monthly podcast schedule, I'm out of amount of out of the rhythm of making one a week. And so I have a reminder to record a podcast, but I just I must have seen it and just totally missed it. And then last week, I was like, I'm recording a podcast in like, a month. Shouldn't I do but we're doing it soon. And I was like, oh, yeah, I should have done it last week. So sorry for the delay. I've been getting up to some stuff, some stuff. As you might have noticed, I've been focusing on on some work you very workI stuffy type of stuff. With my weight inclusive consulting. And I did a survey I'm doing a survey. And it's about it's called anti fat bias in the workplace survey. So far, we've had 327 responses, which is amazing. So it's been out for about a couple of weeks. And in it, it's asking only fat people to tell us about their experiences in the workplace. And boy, oh, my lord, a huge trigger warning. If you don't want to hear about people's experiences of anti fat bias in the workplace, and people what bosses are getting up to what mentions of eating disorders, comments, or hearing what the comments people have have experienced, which are egregious. What else just asked all types of shit. If you're not in the mood for all types of nasty anti fat bias shifts, then this episode, if you want to, if you want to feel like you're within the community, and you're sharing experiences, and you want to hear some stories and and have your mouth, your jaw hang open from horror, and your eyes pop out with unbelievable surprise, as if you have eyes and a mouth. Or let your brain do that, then, then this is the this is the episode for you. Hey, guess what? Guess what I did today. I've been in Canada for 15 years. And this morning, I had my citizenship ceremony. And so I'm almost officially a Canadian citizen. Yeah. So almost a fish I don't know, I think I think I am. They just say afterwards, you have to sign a form. And then you get your certificates. And if you don't sign the form, then I'll sign the form and send it off. So it's always like, am I am I am I gonna throw me out. But it was really, it was really sweet to see all the other immigrants there was about it was about we did a virtual ceremony. There was I think, about 150 people on a zoom call. And a lot of people had like, decorated the back of it, like the you could see behind them like Canadian flags, and they're waving flags, and there were people with babies and kids and they were excited and and actually, my eyeballs got another moist because they weren't they there was a video showing about you know, proud to be a Canadian and then like indigenous stuff and and it said welcome home. And I was like I have my stable. My sidewall alert. Because it's, I really love I'd really do love living here. And it's taken me so long to do this citizenship thing because of my neuro divergence. It seemed like an impossible dream, like an impossible feat. And it wasn't it was because someone at my choir was like, why don't you just do the application by December just do it by the end of the year and I was like okay, I'll just do that and she'd like kind of told me about her experience and it seemed like and you could do it online and and that's the only reason I did it is because I had someone kind of He's helping me through. I had someone to help me through before actually, I'd applied before. And they were helping me through and then I'd sent everything off. And they came back saying, we need originals of your passport. And I was like, what the fuck I'm, and then anyway, then then my apartment flooded and the application got kind of wet. And I was like, no brain shut down cannot cannot continue with the application. And that was like, maybe six years ago and I was like, I can't, I can't I started the application. But I can't I cannot continue because else's barrier that seemed insurmountable, which was to send my passport. And this time, they didn't ask for the original passport, I don't think. But anyway, anyway, it's done. I'm very proud of myself, and very happy. And so now I have a Canadian passport and a British passport. And then at some point, I'll get an Irish passport because my mum's Irish. Because the UK is not part of the EU, which is so embarrassing. Oh, anyway, if you're watching on video, you can always watch the, the the show on YouTube. If you've if you're someone like rosacea, like me, I just put on some, there's a medication called unreality or unreal tear, or I don't know how you pronounce it, I just put it on my, my my right cheek because it's burning up. And so it takes half an hour to work. So during the podcast, you can watch and see if my cheek slowly turns less scarlet red, to see if it's if it works, and how much it works. If you're interested in trying to medication. Obviously, I'm totally different human. But if you heard me or interested, a little study for you. What it is, is just a cream that stops like it's shrinks the blood vessels on your face temporarily. So anyway, anyway, let's talk about people's stories. So we've got a ton of data, or if you are someone who doesn't say that data, so we've got lots of data 327 people have shared their stories and who there's, it's interesting, it's interesting that what I've done is I have separated it it by different marginalized identities, and I can see the ways that I can make this better next time. Like I asked people do you? Are you in a bigger body? Or have you been in the bigger body previously? And I think next time I'd want to know what sighs body, I wanted to make the survey a little bit shorter. But I was just like, oh, I have to add this question. It's essential. I need this question. This question. I was like, Oh, I don't want it. That'd be a barrier. You know, there'll be 40 questions, and people say fuck that. So there's 12 questions. So I think next time, I will take out a couple of questions and put in put in a different one. Another question, which would be what is your size? Anyway, so 98.5% of the 327 people said, they're currently in a bigger body. And then five people said that they are in a smaller body now, but used to have a bigger body. Isn't that interesting? How 98.5% Isn't that very similar to the diet failure rate. Not saying that any of these be these people who've been on a diet, but I just thought that was kind of interesting. The average person who took age it was 30 to 39. So that was 44%. And then 40 to 49 was 30%. And then 20 to 29 was 15%. Most people come from the US and Canada that took the survey, let's give you some numbers. And some numbers, I made a mistake of saying Where do you currently live and just let people type it out. And you know, the amount of different variations of the US or the US US u dot S U S A U S of America, United States. So that is like multiple, multiple, multiple different things anyway. We had 192 People from the US 39 from the UK 100 And I'm just wondering where that 100 night from us and it from us. 54 Canada 10, Australia, Germany six, Netherlands three, Wales two, and we have people from India, Finland, Denmark, Argentina, Belgium, Italy, Northern Ireland, Spain, Sweden. So we had a cross section of Have not a good cross section of moderate cross section of countries. So, do you have other marginalized identities aside from being fat? Most people, most people said that they were women 89% Then we had 44% saying that they're neurodivergent 39 said 39% said that they're queer.