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.
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In this episode of Getting Naked: The Podcast, they talk about:

• Why butter makes everything better, from French scrambled eggs made in a pot to Petite Trois fries
• Growing up in Burgundy, cooking with his grandmother, and starting a kitchen apprenticeship at 14
• Coming to Los Angeles not speaking English, and how Ludo Bites pop-ups led to a restaurant empire
• Getting sober, asking for help, and learning to pause before reacting
• Building a kitchen team and keeping a restaurant open

 THE FULL REVEAL: members only
 Ludo walks Valerie through the kitchen tools and pantry staples he can’t live without, his secret ingredient for ranch dressing, and how he makes his Thanksgiving turkey. Watch it only at https://valeriesplace.com/join (code YOUTUBE = first month free). Memberships start at just $2/month.
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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.
 

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In this episode of Getting Naked: The Podcast, they talk about:

• What EMDR does, and why it can move through stuck memories faster than talk therapy
• Why EMDR can feel like “the deep end of the pool”
• How mindfulness, anger and self-compassion fit in
• Burnout for caregivers and helpers
• How to find an EMDR therapist, including the EMDR International Association’s find-a-therapist tool

 THE FULL REVEAL: members only
 Dr. Dansiger brings a device Valerie has never tried, and she tests it live while answering a voicemail question from a member. Watch it only at https://valeriesplace.com/ (code YOUTUBE = first month free). Memberships start at just $2/month.

Learn more about Dr. Dansiger: https://www.drdansiger.com/
This episode is for information only and isn’t a substitute for professional care.

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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.

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Ryen walks Valerie through Simply Luxe’s Remove, Reassess, Reimagine approach.

They cover:

The red dot test

Reversing your hangers

Why an item is not the person who gave it to you

Honoring the people you love without keeping every box they left behind

Why you should declutter before you buy a single bin

THE FULL REVEAL: members only Ryen opens her bag of tricks, including:

Bin clips and labels, and why over-labeling works

Bamboo drawer dividers and zipper bags

A museum gel hack and a lemon oil trick for stubborn stickers

How to store board games without the boxes

Plus, Valerie has a very tempting invitation for Ryen to visit her garage

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Special offer for Valerie’s Place members: Ryen is offering $500 off a Simply Luxe service. Just mention that Valerie sent you.

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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 Full Reveal, where we answer your questions about breakups and bodyguards (yes, really). Then grab a key of your own: use code DIVINE30 for 30% off at thegivingkeys.com, including making your own custom "divine" key.

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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 bracing for judgment that mostly isn't coming, and get comfortable with being a little uncomfortable.

The conversation covers body image at different ages, Instagram as a tool versus Instagram as a trap, giving your insecurities a name (meet Steve), and Tetyana's five-word mantra for anyone drowning in comparison: "you are not an algorithm."

Members get the full reveal, where Tetyana goes even deeper on that mantra, opens up about chasing likes versus staying human, and shares some genuinely exciting news — a new agent at CAA and a headline speaking slot at a major 2027 media festival. Plus, the story of how she became a "safe space" for total strangers, and what it takes to hold that space without losing herself.

Follow Tetyana on Instagram @tetyanawrites for more.

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 business alongside her sister, raising two kids through it all, and rebuilding after losing her home in the Palisades Fire. It's honest, funny, and full of the kind of resilience Valerie's Home Cooking fans have come to expect from Getting Naked.🍹 Want to see Valerie and Jordan actually make the drinks? The Full Reveal — live mocktail-making, garnish tricks, and more — is exclusive to Valerie's Place members. Get your first month free with code YOUTUBE at https://valeriesplace.com/joinSpecial offers from this episode:🛍️ This Girl Walks Into a Bar is giving Valerie's Place members 30% off their entire order — head to https://thisgirlmixerssnacks.com and use code VALERIE at checkoutMore Getting Naked: The Podcast episodes, plus Still Hot in Cleveland and exclusive cooking content, all live at https://valeriesplace.com.#GettingNaked #ValerieBertinelli #Mocktails #NonAlcoholicDrinks #SoberCurious #WomenEntrepreneurs #ValeriesPlace

Valerie and Todd welcome legendary studio audience warm-up man Michael Burger — the guy behind the guy who kept the Hot in Cleveland crowd laughing for hours before a single scene ever aired. Michael pulls back the curtain on what warm-up work really involves, from his run on 8 Simple Rules with John Ritter to memories of Betty White's legendary ad-libs and the night Hot in Cleveland premiered to 5 million viewers. It's a warm, funny look behind the scenes from one of the kindest guys in the business. Stick around for this episode's Still Steamy segment, available exclusively to Valerie's Place members. This time it's a game — "Warm Up or Cool Down" — where Val has to guess which shows Michael actually worked, and he's got a story ready for every one she gets right.
Learn more about Michael Burger at https://www.michaelburger.com/

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, but they'll only be answering questions from the live chat at https://valeriesplace.com/videos/mack-and-me-live🔒 Full Reveal: this YouTube stream covers part of the conversation — the Full Reveal, where Mackenzie asks Val some of the questions she's always wanted to, is exclusive to Valerie's Place members.👉 Join us there to watch the Full Reveal → https://valeriesplace.com/joinUse code YOUTUBE for your first month free.📅 Friday, September 18th at 1pm ET / 10am PTAvailable live to all paid members starting at $2/month. Replay available after the live premiere.Hosts: Valerie BertinelliGuest: Mackenzie Phillips#GettingNakedPodcast #ValerieBertinelli #MackenziePhillips #ValeriesPlace #LivePodcast #OnePodAtATime #ReturnOfTheMack

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 memoir. A full life, on the page, with honesty and courage.

From there, the conversation moves into some of the most raw and important territory the podcast has ever covered: the 90-day trauma program that changed Mackenzie's life, the letter she received at work years after the book came out that confirmed what she had always had a knowing about, and the EMDR therapy that finally helped both women begin to process what had happened to them. They talk about carrying someone else's shame, about forgiving a father on his deathbed not for him but for herself, and about what recovery actually means — for drugs, for trauma, for survival of any kind.

They also talk about grief — the recent loss of Mackenzie's dearest friend Marissa, who died four weeks after being diagnosed with anaplastic thyroid cancer. About discovering in your 60s that you're actually an introvert. About celibacy, boundaries, and the radical act of caring for yourself.

And they end where all the best conversations end: with two women who have known each other for over 50 years, sitting across from each other for the first time, saying I love you and meaning every word.

In the Full Reveal — exclusively for Valerie's Place members — they get into the naked truth about recovery: what it really takes, the many paths to the top of the mountain, and why, as Gabor Maté says, the question is never "why the drugs" but always "why the pain."

📅 September 18th at 1pm ET — Live After-Show with Mackenzie Phillips. Submit your questions and join live. Available to all paid members only on Valerie's Place.

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 the beginning — a chance elevator meeting at CBS when they were both 15, the making of One Day at a Time under Norman Lear's wing, and what it was like to grow up in the spotlight before anyone had a word for it. They talk about the years they lost touch, the guilt Valerie has carried about not being there during Mackenzie's darkest period, and the phone calls Mackenzie made — "I just want you to know I have six months today" — that she didn't expect returned.

In the Full Reveal — exclusively for Valerie's Place members — it's 1970s Hollywood, Rick Springfield, KC and the Sunshine Band, a club they definitely shouldn't have been in, and the story of how Mackenzie got Valerie out of there before things went too far. Plus: Valerie opens up about her quiet sobriety journey, a viewer asks the question everyone's thinking ("you two need to do another sitcom"), and Part 2 is coming — because there was simply too much left to say.