{"podcast":{"title":"The Brilliant Body Podcast with Ali Mezey","slug":"the-brilliant-body-podcast-with-ali-mezey-6712565","podcast_index_feed_id":6712565,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-brilliant-body-with-ali-mezey","website_url":"http://www.alimezey.com/media","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Lygo5hwJ_6KaKlQ4NPLJa0_VFaQrAz1sedML9Bq_X70/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lZWEx/ZDZlYzJiNTZmY2E5/NDNkODk5ZjhjZmNm/ZjczNS5wbmc.jpg","author":"Alison Mezey","episode_count":79,"summary":"The Brilliant Body Podcast with Ali Mezey is a forum to learn about and liberate the brilliance of your body. Join me, Ali Mezey, and other body masters to explore pioneering perspectives on what it actually means – and feels like – to be embodied. Whether you feel disconnected from your body due to trauma, shame, pain, cultural conditioning or lack of education or you already feel at home in your body but want to learn to have more pleasure, awareness and access to your body’s guidance – this is the podcast for you. Each one of my trailblazing guests will share their expertise and unique mission to thrive, as a body. Together, we’ll explore how to access and engage the vast, detailed and useful intelligence contained within our flesh. So join us and reclaim your body’s brilliance!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T16:19:23.068050+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-brilliant-body-podcast-with-ali-mezey-6712565"},"episode":{"title":"The Receiving and Giving Body with Dr Betty Martin, Creator of The Wheel of Consent","slug":"the-receiving-and-giving-body-with-dr-betty-martin-creator-of-the-wheel-of-consent","published_at":"2025-09-12T07:54:38+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-brilliant-body-podcast-with-ali-mezey-6712565/the-receiving-and-giving-body-with-dr-betty-martin-creator-of-the-wheel-of-consent","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-brilliant-body-podcast-with-ali-mezey-6712565","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/ce457a61","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/media.transistor.fm/ce457a61/60f7cf6a.mp3","summary":"Episode Summary In this episode, Ali welcomes renowned educator and creator of the Wheel of Consent, Betty Martin. The conversation explores Betty’s journey from her early days as a chiropractor and her deep dive into somatic and erotic practices, to the development of her influential framework, the Wheel of Consent. Together, they discuss the importance of touch, the power of choice in giving and receiving, and how the Wheel of Consent helps people understand boundaries, pleasure, and agency in both professional and personal contexts. Betty shares insights from her decades of teaching, the challenges people face in discovering what they want, and practical exercises for waking up the senses. The episode is a rich, heartfelt exploration of embodiment, consent, and the transformative potential of conscious touch. FOR MORE ALI MEZEY: ALI - Website ALI - LinkTree FOR MORE BETTY MARTIN: BETTY - Website Like A Pro : Training for touch professionals Betty's Media Kit BIO: Dr. Betty Martin has had her hands on people professionally for over 40 years (some of it legal and some of it questionable). 30 years of Chiropractic and other modalities, then later, 15 years of Somatic Sex Education and Surrogate Partner Therapy. Also Contact Improv and other kinds of play. She is the developer of the Wheel of Consent, a cutting edge model of receiving and giving, based on touch but amenable to non-touch practices as well. She is the author of The Art of Receiving and Giving: The Wheel of Consent. She loves sharing her experience. She developed a 5 day training in the Wheel of Consent for practitioners, which took her around the world, and then trained others to teach it so she could retire. She currently mentors helping professionals, from psychotherapists to sex workers, and all stripe…","meta_description":"Episode Summary In this episode, Ali welcomes renowned educator and creator of the Wheel of Consent, Betty Martin. The conversation explores Betty’s journ…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4027,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-brilliant-body-podcast-with-ali-mezey-6712565/episodes/the-receiving-and-giving-body-with-dr-betty-martin-creator-of-the-wheel-of-consent/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-brilliant-body-podcast-with-ali-mezey-6712565/the-receiving-and-giving-body-with-dr-betty-martin-creator-of-the-wheel-of-consent.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}