Danielle With…Witney Carson
Pod Meets World
iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
We’re traveling back in time for a DWTS focused episode as Danielle preps for the first live show of the year.
This week’s guest won her first Mirrorball back in 2014 with current DWTS host Alfonso Ribeiro, and now she’s our reigning champion with the Thunder from Down Under, Robert Irwin, but Danielle is ready find out what Witney Carson is all about!
Hear which season she wishes she could redo, and which she thought she had in the bag. We also learn about her dancing origin story and how her first trophy shaped an entire career path.
Plus…will Witney return next season?? We have her answer on this week’s return to Danielle With…
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:20.1 | Hello and welcome to Danielle with, a podcast that, if you're hip to industry lingo, |
| 0:26.0 | recently flipped into my solo interview series Teen Beat. |
| 0:30.4 | But since I, Danielle Fischel, director, podcaster, mom of two, and TV ready ballroom dancer, |
| 0:36.6 | am about to go out on the road for the Dancing |
| 0:38.7 | with the Stars live tour. I figured that I'd not only be updating you from all cities like |
| 0:44.2 | Hershey, Pennsylvania, and Bangor, Maine, I'd also prep a bit and return to talk to some of my |
| 0:51.1 | favorite pros and contestants from the show. I'm hosting 28 live performances |
| 0:56.8 | over three months, and since this is a safe space, I will admit one thing. I have no idea what to |
| 1:03.9 | expect. Yet, I am very excited to meet some of you live and in person at these shows, and if |
| 1:10.0 | worse comes to worse, I will just use |
| 1:11.9 | any free time I have on the bus to force Jenna Johnson to help me get abs. But today, I wouldn't |
| 1:18.3 | just return to Danielle with for any meaningless reason. It would have to be for a guest of the |
| 1:24.8 | utmost importance, a superstar even. And so for this week's special |
| 1:30.2 | episode, I'm joined by the owner of not only one, but two mirrorball trophies, with her most |
| 1:36.7 | recent victory capturing the nation by storm and forever changing the culture of the show |
| 1:42.5 | moving forward. She first appeared on the ballroom floor as a member of the troop in seasons 16 and 17, |
| 1:48.9 | then the following year was promoted to big league competitor, |
| 1:52.4 | and it only took two cycles to score her way into the winner's circle, |
| 1:56.8 | partnered with Alfonso Ribeiro, who at the time was just a lowly celebrity contestant. |
| 2:02.6 | But with her help, not only transformed into one of the most impressive winners in the show's history, |
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