Hello, it's Danielle Fischel checking in, a podcaster, TV director, and mom of two,

most commonly recognized on these streets as Topanga.

But right now, I am appearing on your television sets once again as part of Dancing with the Stars

Season 34, immersed as a competitor in the world of ballroom dance. I've gone from not even having one minute of dance experience,

unless you count dancing at a wedding, to now abandoning my family, essentially, to practice

for what feels like 24 hours a day, seven days a week, alongside my assigned pro partner,

Pasha Pashkov. And throughout the journey, I'm keeping you up to

date with everything that is going on behind the scenes in the form of this here podcast, Danielle

with the Stars, all in the hopes of being able to add the title of Len Goodman Mirabal trophy

winner to my Wikipedia, right behind Chef, which I never was.

That may not be on my Wikipedia anymore, but it used to be.

One of my favorite little tidbits.

Guys, you won't believe this.

We are making an exclusive announcement about week five dedication night. You are not going to want to miss this.

Who will I be dedicating my dance to? What song am I dancing to? It's going to be very special

and you will find out in just a little bit. First though, I am hot off the press line for week four, marking one

month of competition, and tonight was Disney Night. So you may notice I'm not in my wardrobe

tonight. In the past, I've come off the press line. I've run in here, and I have started this

year podcast, and then it occurred to us we are making

other people in other departments wait while I had wait to take off my costume, wait to cut.

They sometimes sew my hair into itself. So like today for Disney night, I was blue from the jungle

book and we put my hair in the shape of cute little

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