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Speaker 1: Hello. It's Danielle Fishl, podcaster, TV director and mom of two,

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Speaker 1: but forever known to most as Tapanga from the nostalgic

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Speaker 1: TGIA favorite Boy Meets World. Currently, though, I am competing

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Speaker 1: on season thirty four of Dancing with the Stars and

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Speaker 1: I am having the time of my life. As a reminder,

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Speaker 1: I have absolutely no experience in the field. I'm not

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Speaker 1: even sure I should be doing this, but one thing

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Speaker 1: I am sure of. I'll be keeping you updated in

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Speaker 1: the form of this podcast, Danielle with the Stars, chronicling

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Speaker 1: my entire journey to win a Mirror Ball. This is

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Speaker 1: immediately following the press line which immediately followed the premiere

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Speaker 1: of Dancing with the Stars in thirty four. First of all,

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Speaker 1: I would really like to say that I have only

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Speaker 1: been able to have this incredible of anexperience on Dancing

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Speaker 1: with the Stars so far because of all of the

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Speaker 1: people around me who have just made this possible for me.

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Speaker 1: From my husband, who has picked up one hundred percent

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Speaker 1: of the stuff that I normally do for our household

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Speaker 1: and the kids, which is a lot. He has taken

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent of that on my kids, who have

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Speaker 1: been really understanding about my hours and my schedule, and

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Speaker 1: knowing that sometimes I may only be able to see

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Speaker 1: them when they wake up in the morning, that I

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Speaker 1: may not be home before they are down for the night.

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Speaker 1: And you know, people who help our family, like my

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Speaker 1: incredible nanny who when my husband is overworked and overloaded

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Speaker 1: with things because I'm not there, she has picked up

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Speaker 1: the slack. It has been such like a team effort.

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Speaker 1: To Tara, our fantastic producer, who's coming to me here

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Speaker 1: late at night after a taping so that I can

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Speaker 1: do this podcast and bring all of this stuff to you,

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Speaker 1: my family, The words of support, the messages you guys

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Speaker 1: have been sending me, the amount of texts and love

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Speaker 1: and direct messages and comments on our Instagram and our tiktoks,

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Speaker 1: the love that I feel and the like the celebratory

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Speaker 1: nature of what I'm doing is just really really special,

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Speaker 1: and I want to thank you all so much. So

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to start on an emotional note, but

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Speaker 1: oh well, what are you gonna do? You know, a

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Speaker 1: girl's gotta cry once in a while. Man, what a

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Speaker 1: show I You know, I have done some show and

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Speaker 1: tells over the last couple of weeks with people who

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Speaker 1: were in rehearsal times at the same time as me.

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Speaker 1: But man, everybody came alive in that ballroom. The confetti,

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Speaker 1: the pyrotechnics, the lasers, the energy, our friends and our

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Speaker 1: family being there. It was Wow. It is it's so

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Speaker 1: fast paced. It's so busy. I have been here. I

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Speaker 1: left my house this morning at six forty five. It's

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Speaker 1: now eight thirty pm. I have been in hair and

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Speaker 1: makeup since seven forty five. I've been in my dress

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Speaker 1: since one pm. Actually a little bit before one pm,

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Speaker 1: like twelve thirty pm. It's and all day you're just going, going, going,

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Speaker 1: and you're doing hair, then you're doing makeup. Then they're

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Speaker 1: pulling you out. They're doing a camera blocking, and you

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Speaker 1: want to like really make sure they see what the

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Speaker 1: performance is going to be, to make sure they capture

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Speaker 1: all the right moments. There's opening numbers, the pros are dancing.

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Speaker 1: The dressing rooms are kind of far from where the

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Speaker 1: to bring your slippers that they bought you, which is

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Speaker 1: very nice. And we have beautiful robes also that we

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Speaker 1: right now. I stink. I've been truly running back and

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Speaker 1: can't wait to go home and take a shower. I

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Speaker 1: also need to ice my hamstring. My leg is very swollen.

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Speaker 1: It was really starting to cramp up on me right

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Speaker 1: I have realized I'm gonna have to get used to

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Speaker 1: that you have to go one hundred percent every time

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Speaker 1: you do your dance. As someone who started my career

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Speaker 1: as an actor at ten years old, actors don't do that.

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Speaker 1: We don't go one hundred percent until the camera is rolling,

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Speaker 1: really good. I trust Pasha implicitly. I trust him with everything,

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Speaker 1: that the live show was by far the best. So

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Speaker 1: I trust him. But I will also watch the tape

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Speaker 1: myself and critique myself, even though he says that's useless

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Speaker 1: because we don't do tango again. But you're seeing my

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Speaker 1: perfectionism come through so that is what we danced tonight.

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Speaker 1: We danced a tango to Kelly Clarkson's Stronger because it

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Speaker 1: was Anthem week and when they asked me what my

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Speaker 1: anthem was, it was a really quick answer. I'm a

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Speaker 1: Kelly Clarkson fan. That song has always been a lot

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Speaker 1: to me, but it really took on a whole new

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Speaker 1: meeting for me last year when I had breast cancer

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Speaker 1: anthem song, that was the one that just to me immediately.

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Speaker 1: So I have really enjoyed Pasha's choreography. There are some

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Speaker 1: really great moments where the part where she says stand

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Speaker 1: a long day Like I said, I've been here now

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Speaker 1: into a high pony. My makeup is green and gold

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Speaker 1: and super sparkly, really really fun. And then my jewelry.

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Speaker 1: I'm wearing actually a vintage Paddock Philippe watch that is

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Speaker 1: absolutely amazing. Shout out to Eric Wynd who sent it

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Speaker 1: I am obsessed with it. I'm also wearing, as you

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Speaker 1: guys know, my friend Jamie Forever fine jewelry. I'm wearing

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Speaker 1: all of her jewels, and then I've got this nice

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Speaker 1: But I've also got these gorgeous earrings that are from

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Speaker 1: Jamie and my rehearsal shoes. These are not like special

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Speaker 1: so do I because I am a dancer. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: So he was a really comforting face to see. Carrie

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Speaker 1: Anne was so missed. She was sick tonight she's never

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Speaker 1: were only two judges, which means our scores were out

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Speaker 1: getting an eight is going to feel really bad, even

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Speaker 1: I got two six's, that I got a twelve out

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Speaker 1: dance experience. For someone who three weeks ago had never

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Speaker 1: sixes feels like an absolute win. So I'm happy about that.

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Speaker 1: I know they said some very nice compliments about my dancing,

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Speaker 1: and I love that Derek said it was like a

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Speaker 1: breath of fresh air. That really means a lot. Keeping

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Speaker 1: my shoulders down. Yeah, you're preaching to the choir friends.

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Speaker 1: I have been working on these darned shoulders for a

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Speaker 1: probably should have reminded myself of the shoulders right before

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Speaker 1: I went out. Right before I went out, I had

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Speaker 1: paid attention to my package, which, as you know, Sabrina

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Speaker 1: Bryan specifically told me, don't watch your package because you

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Speaker 1: never know what's going to be in there. And I

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Speaker 1: had watched my package and I saw that it was

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Speaker 1: about my cancer journey. And I looked over and I

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Speaker 1: We're all sitting in the audience, and I started to

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Speaker 1: feel myself get emotional, and I was like, Serena told

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Speaker 1: Lock in with Pasha. Just lock in with Pasha and

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Speaker 1: pretend that no one else is here. And that's exactly

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Speaker 1: Next time you hear from me, I will be sitting

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Speaker 1: the way the voting system works. It's only live on

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Speaker 1: I have loved every single second of this. Loved doing

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Speaker 1: to respond to things on social media. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for all the feedback on the social media too.

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Speaker 1: We have been on Faija. We have been doing so

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Speaker 1: many tiktoks, so many reels. I didn't know I had

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Speaker 1: it in me to be to be so present in

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Speaker 1: the social media world, but boy, has it ever been fun?

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Speaker 1: And I give so much credit to that to Pasha

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Speaker 1: because he's also a genius at that. Like, is there

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Speaker 1: anything the guy can't do? Please have a flaw? Oh God, seriously,

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Speaker 1: don't be so perfect all the time. All Right, thank

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Speaker 1: you all for listening to this episode of Danielle with

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Speaker 1: the Stars. I will see you next time with Maxim Schmerkovsky.

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Speaker 1: Danielle with the Stars produced and hosted by Danielle Fischel.

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Speaker 1: Executive producers Jensen Carp and Amy Sugarman, Executive in charge

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Speaker 1: of production Danielle Romo, Producer, editor and engineer Tara Sudbasch.

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Speaker 1: Theme song by Justin Siegel. Follow us on Instagram at

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Speaker 1: Danielle with Stars and vote for me