This is an IHeart podcast.

Hello, Danielle with the Stars gang. It's Danielle Fischel, podcaster, TV director, mother of two, and Topanga Lawrence, daughter of Jedediah and Rianne and Lawrence from the TV show, Boy Meets World. But if you're listening to me right now, you are well aware that I am also an aspiring ballroom dancer on season 34 of Dancing with the Stars and a student of Shiz University because it was wicked night.

And despite having no prior dance experience, I have now completely submitted my body and well-being to the art form

and institution of dance, alongside my partner, the incredible Pasha Pashkov. And included in this

commitment has been a podcast, set in motion to share my first-hand experience with you. And it's

called Danielle with the Stars.

You'll ride along as I avoid total body breakdown, learn new dances every week, and stare

longingly at the Len Goodman mirrorball trophy like a dog at the window of Ruth's Chris.

And I am joining you now, fresh off the press line of what was a jam-packed night of action,

fancy footwork, incredible sets, fantastic music, and it was Wicked Night.

I danced the Argentine tango to the song No Good Deed as featured in both the musical Wicked and

Part 2 for Good. I was nine out of 10 to perform tonight. I really felt a lot of pressure for

tonight's dance. Last week felt like getting that feedback specifically from Carrie Ann that she thought

our dances looked the same and I totally knew what she meant.

And I really wanted to have exactly what she called tonight, which was my breakthrough dance and my breakthrough night. I really wanted to have exactly what she called tonight, which was my breakthrough dance and my

breakthrough night, I really wanted to have a breakthrough week. And I knew that we were getting

to the point in the competition where if I didn't have one, it was possible. It was just never

going to happen. And I knew it was possible. Like I knew it was possible. I knew I could

do it. I knew it had, I knew I had it in me. I knew Pasha was capable of, you know, doing some

fantastic choreography to a number that would really help me feel like I had a total breakthrough.

And so I just really wanted it to be this week. And I felt a lot of pressure for it to be this week.

And when I saw Pasha's choreography and I saw all the lifts and I was like, I've never

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