Getting Naked: The Podcast

Chef Ludo Lefebvre shares his Thanksgiving turkey secrets in the Full Reveal, and the free episode is just as good. Valerie Bertinelli sits down with her longtime friend, the Michelin star chef behind Petit Trois, for a conversation about food, family, and getting sober.  Want the Full Reveal? Join Valerie’s Place and get your first month free with code  SPOTIFY : https://valeriesplace.com/join In...

How does EMDR therapy actually work?  Valerie has talked about how EMDR helped her work through childhood trauma, and so many of you have asked how it works that she brought in an expert: Dr. Stephen Dansiger, an EMDR trainer, author, and former punk drummer who played CBGB at 16 and later lived at a Zen monastery for a year.   Want the Full Reveal? Join Valerie’s Place and get your first month fr...

How do you let go of your parents’ things without the guilt? Valerie is staring down a garage full of memories, a pool table, and about a thousand copies of her second cookbook, so she calls in Ryen Toft, founder of Simply Luxe Organizing, for a very honest talk. Want the Full Reveal? Join Valerie’s Place and get your first month free with code YOUTUBE https://valeriesplace.com/join Ryen walks Val...

I could have talked to Caitlin Crosby all day. She’s the founder of The Giving Keys, which turns old keys into little reminders like  faith ,  worthy , and  rise  while employing people transitioning out of homelessness. We talk about loving our flaws, how a jewelry side hustle at her merch table outsold her CDs, and what it’s like when life blows up right after your biggest high. Stay for the Ful...

Valerie's guest this week is Tetyana Denford, the writer and author behind the "nobody cares" movement that's taken over Instagram — and quickly took over Valerie's algorithm too. Valerie is joined by co-host Mackenzie Phillips for this one, and together they dig into Tetyana's philosophy, which sounds blunt at first but is really a permission slip: stop performing, stop...

Valerie sits down with Jordan Catapano, co-founder of This Girl Walks Into a Bar, to talk mocktails, motherhood, and building a business from the ground up. What started as a book for women learning to bartend turned into a line of organic, low-sugar cocktail mixers — made to taste just as good without the alcohol. Jordan opens up about walking away from a failed screenwriting career, running the...

Valerie and Mackenzie Phillips come together live for the first time ever to answer your questions after the last two episodes — One Pod at a Time and Return of the Mack. If the last two weeks of Getting Naked moved you, made you think, or left you with something you needed to ask — this is your moment. Mackenzie and Val are live, taking your questions in real time. This episode is live on YouTube...

She's back. In Part 2 of one of the most requested conversations in Getting Naked history, Valerie and Mackenzie Phillips pick up right where they left off — and go even deeper.  They begin with listener voicemails, including questions about working together again and about Mackenzie's memoir  High on Arrival  — a book Mackenzie is clear about: it's not a book about incest. It's a...

She's the most requested guest since day one — and she was absolutely worth the wait. Valerie sits down with her oldest friend, One Day at a Time co-star, and honorary sister Mackenzie Phillips for a conversation that spans five decades of shared history, Hollywood childhood, hard-won recovery, and the kind of friendship that picks back up exactly where it left off. They go all the way back to...

In this episode of Getting Naked: The Podcast, Valerie sits down with her long-time friend and five-time Emmy nominee Faith Ford for an intimate look back at her iconic television career on Murphy Brown and Hope & Faith. The two dive into the emotional realities of moving back home to Louisiana, navigating the shift into caregiving for aging parents, and discovering renewed confidence and crea...

Valerie sits down with author Najwa Zebian — a conversation she wasn't expecting to hit this deep, but honestly, could've gone three hours. They dig into people-pleasing, building a home inside yourself instead of in other people, and why healing means letting go of who you had to be to survive. Najwa opens up about growing up in Lebanon, moving to Canada alone at 16, and how teaching a cl...

Get ready to peel back the layers as Valerie Bertinelli catches up with fellow Hollywood child star Holly Robinson Peete to dish on survival in show business and nearly 30 years of marriage in the spotlight! From hilarious throwbacks to turning family struggles with autism and Parkinson’s into real-life advocacy, this candid conversation is all about embracing your power, dropping expectations, an...

Just Val and your voicemails — and this one went some places she really wasn't expecting. It covered everything from what music she's listening to besides Mammoth (Taylor Swift, obviously), to how to handle toxic social media (the block button is a gift), to how to cope when old memories and trauma flashbacks hit out of nowhere. We talked jewelry, we talked walks, and we talked about why V...

In this episode of Getting Naked: The Podcast, host Valerie welcomes Malika Begin, a leadership consultant and CEO, to discuss the messy but powerful process of personal and professional transformation. Together, they explore how women can shed outdated identities, rethink self-doubt as a tool for growth, and step into their inherent power by dropping their masks and embracing self-awareness over...

In this episode of Getting Naked: The Podcast, host Valerie Bertinelli connects with fellow actress and New York Times best-selling author Jennie Garth to explore the striking parallels of growing up in the Hollywood spotlight. The two dive into an intimate conversation about the challenges of setting personal boundaries, letting go of perfectionism, and overcoming the weight of tabloid scrutiny.

Drew Sams is back, and this time they're going through all seven. Pastor, ultra runner, and outdoorsman Drew walks Val through the seven natural landscapes he believes can teach us to pay better attention — to ourselves, to each other, and to what actually matters. The sky. Mountains. Rivers. The desert. Forests. Fields. And the ocean. Each one carries a lesson, and this conversation carries a...

In the first of a two part conversation, Valerie is joined by Drew Sams.  They discuss his family's emotional fertility journey and how it reshaped his understanding of love. Drew also breaks down the concept of the "Attention Economy" and explains his "Art of Attention" framework. 

Valerie sits down with her close friend, writer, and travel blogger Jo Stougaard, for an intimate and wide-ranging conversation. Jo shares her ultimate insider travel tips for exploring the world, while also opening up about the deeper, more vulnerable aspects of her complicated family history. It’s a beautifully balanced episode that seamlessly transitions from practical wanderlust advice to the...

In this episode of Getting Naked: The Podcast, host Valerie sits down with Hot in Cleveland executive producer Todd Milliner to trace his journey from Chicago improv to his 20-year comedy and business partnership with Sean Hayes. Milliner shares invaluable industry lessons learned from director Jim Burrows, answers fan questions, and lastly he and Val explore the Vick Tayback phenomenon.

In this 2nd edition of Asked and Answered, Valerie dives into the Valerie's Place voicemail to tackle a variety of raw, unfiltered questions from her members. With her signature blend of honesty and humor, it's raw, funny and unfiltered, just like Val.

There’s something in the air. Anxiety, worry, a quiet sense of unease. The news is relentless, AI feels daunting, and the world seems to be changing faster than we can process, leaving us overwhelmed and disconnected. Valerie talks with her friend, therapist and returning guest Melissa Brohner-Schneider about how to navigate it all and find calm in the chaos.

Who would you be if nobody told you who you were? Do you listen to your inner a**hole? What would it take for you to step out of your “safe bubble”? Valerie unpacks vulnerability, shame, love and more with bestselling author of the books “Proof of Life” and “Being Human” and radical workshop leader Jennifer Pastiloff, who insists “you are never lost.”

After the death of her husband of 37 years,  Young and the Restless  star Jerry Douglas, television personality and beauty expert Kym Douglas believed she’d already had her one great love and that was it for the rest of her life. She was wrong. Valerie unpacks Kym’s inspiring life story--surviving breast cancer, losing Jerry, daring to fall in love again, and remarrying at 65—while reflecting on h...

How do we say we’re grateful—and truly feel it? When life happens, the question becomes: “Now what?” We don’t have to be passive in our own lives. Valerie sits down with therapist Abby Gold to explore joy, disappointment, anger, gratitude, intention, perspective, and what it means to stay present through it all—in other words, everyday life.

Ever wonder how a food critic eats-and thinks-about food? Valerie talks to her good friend and go-to source for food and how it brings us all together, renowned LA Times restaurant critic (and 2025 James Beard Award finalist for criticism) Jenn Harris.