Hello!

Once again, it's Danielle Fischel, a podcaster, TV director, and mom of two, but forever yelled at

in airports as Topanga. Currently, I am competing on Dancing with the Stars, part of a grueling

process, pushing myself to the limit. Yet somehow, don't ask how this is possible. I'm having

the time of my life.

And throughout the journey, I am going to keep you informed on everything, thanks to this

podcast, Danielle with the Stars. I have one goal in mind to forever be referred to as a mirrorball

champion. So I am just off the press line for week three. It was

TikTok week, which is a brand new theme for the show. They've never done that before. I did the

fox trot to Sabrina Carpenter's Manchild. So TikTok week was a little confusing to me at first.

I was like, do all of our dances have to involve TikTok trends or TikTok dances?

Because I do not consider myself to be a TikTok dancer.

That's not usually where I get my bread buttered,

if that makes sense. So I was a little nervous about that. And then once I kind of had the understanding

that the song choice had to be something that had been viral on TikTok, and if the couples wanted,

they could incorporate TikTok dances

into their choreography.

Pasha and I tend to be a little more,

I guess you would say, like rule followers,

even though the rules were taken off for this week and we were allowed

to incorporate TikTok dances, both of us felt kind of against doing it. We really wanted to

do a proper fox trot to a fantastic song, Manchild, which is like one of my favorites. From the moment I heard it,

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