{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6ab80047fb182c6fb50e2c1b/6ae06936b50147298b11952a?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"From Phone Sex Operator to Dominatrix to Coach: Lady Velvet on Ditching Shame","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6ab80047fb182c6fb50e2c1b/1793091819072-ae028b57-0a9f-4bc4-87a4-0980d22669db.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Teenage single mum. Phone sex operator. Professionally trained dominatrix. Award-winning coach. Grandma of four. Lady Velvet, the Mistress of Choice, has lived many lives, and she’s done hiding any of them.</p><p><br></p><p>She tells us how a conversation on a bench by Tower Bridge led to seven years of phone sex work to feed her boys, what thousands of calls taught her about what men really want, and the moment she finally owned her story in front of 200 women. Then she leads us through the Velvet Command (try it at home), a releasing ritual, and a conversation about shame, pleasure, people-pleasing and who we are underneath all the labels.</p><p><br></p><p>Explicit, honest and surprisingly emotional. You’ll walk away with your shoulders back.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow us: @happentobemums</p><p><br></p><p>▫️https://www.LadyVelvet.co.uk</p><p>▫️IG: @Lady_Velvet_Official</p><p>▫️Birmingham Fetish Weekend</p><p>https://www.instagram.com/birminghamfetishweekend/</p><p>▫️Big and Buff Bespoke</p><p><u><a href=\"https://linktr.ee/bignbuffbespoke?\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://linktr.ee/bignbuffbespoke?</a></u></p><p><br></p><p>00:00 Cold open: &quot;What&#39;s your book about?&quot;</p><p>01:05 Meet Lady Velvet, the Mistress of Choice</p><p>01:50 Teenage single mum, boarding school in Jamaica</p><p>06:45 Gut and Glory (partner)</p><p>08:35 &quot;Why don&#39;t we do phone sex?&quot;</p><p>16:02 How Lady Velvet was born</p><p>18:08 What men really want in bed</p><p>20:19 From dominatrix to owning the label &quot;sex worker&quot;</p><p>23:38 &quot;I don&#39;t want to be a lady, Grandma&quot;</p><p>28:32 The Velvet Temple</p><p>37:00 Telling 200 women the truth</p><p>41:17 The Velvet Command (say it with us)</p><p>47:36 Swallowing your no</p><p>54:53 &quot;Who are you?&quot;</p><p>1:01:32 &quot;My children saved my life&quot;</p><p>1:06:34 Gifts and goodbyes</p>","author_name":"Nicky Crosby and Ellie Fanyinka"}