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Pod Meets World

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🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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We're just days away from the premiere of Dancing with the Stars Season 34 and Danielle is ready to move! Even if her hamstring isn’t.
We find out how her rehearsals with Pasha have been going, how she's taking care of her body and which ABC sitcom star she recently fangirled over.
Plus, we find out what familiar faces will be in the audience for her ballroom debut! It’s all coming together - for a new Danielle with the Stars!!

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0:00.0	Hello, it is podcaster, TV director and mom of two, but forever known to most as Topanga from the nostalgic TGIF favorite Boy Meets World.
0:24.4	Currently, though, I am deep in the process of learning how to ballroom dance for season 34 of
0:30.2	Dancing with the Stars. And still, I have absolutely no experience in the field. I'm not even
0:36.2	sure I should be doing this. But one thing I am sure of,
0:39.3	I will be keeping you updated in the form of this podcast, Danielle with the Stars, chronicling my
0:44.9	entire journey to place a mirror ball on my shelf and show it off to everyone who ever enters my home.
0:54.4	I have started week two of training for Dancing with the Stars.
1:02.4	I have so many updates for you.
1:05.3	We have been so busy.
1:07.1	Before I started the show, everyone said to me, oh, just you wait.
1:11.5	This schedule is going to be insane.
1:13.4	And I thought I had a pretty good understanding of how it was going to be.
1:17.2	And even hearing like, oh, you rehearse for four hours a day, six days a week.
1:21.8	And I thought, yeah, that sounds like a long time.
1:23.9	And I thought, but, you know, four hours a day is not that bad. Let me tell
1:30.1	you something. Four hours a day of high physical exertion is so much time. And I get to my
1:41.7	practices early, Pasha and I stretch because, boy, if you are not warmed up,
1:47.3	you could really do some damage to your body. So, you know, we also do like a lot of morning rehearsals.
1:54.6	We have, so the way the rehearsal schedule is broken up is you either pick 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. or
2:00.1	you pick 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. or you pick 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. or you pick 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. So when I first got that schedule and they were like, let me know what your preferences are for rehearsals. I was like, oh, I'm definitely a 9 to 1 or a 1 to 5. As a matter of fact, I can never do five to nine, I said. And now that I'm looking back on it, I'm like, ooh, maybe I need some five to
2:21.0	nines. never do five to nine, I said. And now that I'm looking back on it, I'm like, ooh, maybe I need
2:20.3	some five to nines. Because at least if you're working out and you're dancing from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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