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Hello Danielle with the Stars gang. It's Danielle Fishel, podcaster, TV director, mother of two, and Topanga Lawrence, daughter of Jedediah and Rhiannon 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 firsthand 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 two for good. I was nine out of ten 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 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 gonna happen. And I knew it was possible. Like, I knew it was possible. I knew I could do it. I knew it. 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 done anything like this before. Nobody has ever picked me up other than being, you know, a five foot one woman who people sometimes will hug and then pick up. And I'm like, okay, I don't want to be picked up. I have never done lifts like that. Like, I didn't know what to expect. I didn't know what my role in it was supposed to be. Like, how do I help you help you help me? How do I do that? I didn't know. And I felt at the very beginning of the week like I was just a sack of potatoes. And it was. None of the moves were looking good. None of the lifts were looking great and truly full. Two days into rehearsing the routine. And I was like, this doesn't look good. I'm not sure we have a dance here. Pasha never gave up on me. He never felt like there was something we couldn't do. He just kept challenging me. And every day, a new body part hurt. I have, like, some very sore ribs and some sore skin around my ribs from where he was, you know, having to grip me for all of the lifts. I realized very quickly that lifts, as much as they are on the man, to actually pick you up, so much of a lift is actually in the woman. And being able to have your shoulders down and your lats engaged and your chest engaged. And when you do that and you're one solid piece, and it makes it significantly easier for them to pick you up and move you Instead of being like a bunch of individual body parts, that requires a lot of strength. And I told jensen, my husband, on one of the first days of this new week, I said, imagine that feeling when you've gone to the gym or you've done a really hard workout and one or two parts of your body are just incredibly sore. Like, fatigued to 100%. You have maxed them out. Then normally, if you are just working out for health and wellness, you move on to other body parts. You don't go back to those same body parts. You don't do biceps on Wednesday and then biceps on Thursday and then biceps on Friday. You do in dance, like, we're doing these same moves over and over again seven days a week. So whatever little sore spots you have, whether it's your ribs or it's your hamstrings or it's your neck or your shoulder, guess what? You get a night's rest, and you get to take some advil and you get to go to sleep and maybe take an epsom salt bath, maybe do a cold plunge. But tomorrow, you are back at it, hitting that body part again with those same exact moves for four plus hours. It is just. I did not realize how much I did not recognize what dancers put their bodies through. It is a lot. And we had our share of struggles this week. Pasha's. His hamstrings were bothering him. We had the quick step in the jive the two weeks prior to that. So both of us were doing lots of little flicks and kicks and lots of runs. And then we have this dance which is, you know, he's doing a lot of lifts, so he's in a lot of squats. He's doing a lot of squats, and everything was Everything was hurting. And there was at one point on, I think it was Sunday, we went to do the routine full out 100%, and my left pec muscle hurts so bad that I had to stop. And I said, we're gonna have to be really strategic here because right now I'm in so much pain. The thought of trying to do that move again is making me shake. Like, I'm so scared to feel the pain that I'm gonna feel. And I don't want to do this because it's Sunday. And, like, I could. What if I really hurt myself right now? And then Monday, camera blocking. I can't do it. Or even worse, Tuesday, show day. I can't do it. And so Pasha said, you're right. We need to be smart about this. Stop. Let's stop doing all the tricks. Let's not worry about the tricks for the rest of the night. Let's just clean and focus on everything that isn't a lift. Let's do the whole routine top to bottom, marking as much as you can the lift and focus on everything else. And so we spent the next, like, hour and a half just doing that. And I actually took a leave during that time, Took an hour to an hour and a half off. And by the time we got to that hour and a half, I said, what time is it? And he said, it's about 8:30pm and our rehearsal was over at 9. And I said, I think I feel okay to try one all the way through with the tricks. I think I. And he said, are you sure? And I was like, I did some stretches. And I was like, yeah, I feel significantly better. My anxiety about the like, about hurting myself is now gone. And when I touch the muscle, I feel, okay, let's try it. And we were able to do was really good. We felt super confident about it all of that time. That hour, hour and a half time we spent focusing on the stuff that wasn't the lifts did not go to waste. The dance looked so great after that one. We still had some things we needed to fix, of course, but at least at 9pm when we finished, we had done it top to bottom, including the lifts. And I was really happy that we spent all that downtime letting me heal and cleaning everything that wasn't a lift. So anyway, I. This week was not an easy week. It was especially not an easy week for Pasha. And I'm really very, very proud of us. We had our highest scores of the season. Last week we had 7, 7, 7, 8. And this week we had four nines. I did not go into tonight even really thinking about scores. I really just went in thinking about feedback and, like, what I wanted the feedback to be. And the one thing that I feel like I really kept saying to myself was, like, my goal was that I wanted someone to say or to feel like this was a breakthrough dance, because I had that in my mind, and I had that pressure on me all week. And so the minute Carrie Ann said that she felt like this was a breakthrough dance for me, I felt really, very touched. And then at the end of the night, something nobody got to see is while we were standing on the floors, right before elimination, the judges were all standing at their tables, and Carrie Ann looked at me, and she smiled at me, and she said, I'm really proud of you. And it really meant a lot. Like, it really, really, really meant a lot. And I just want to keep getting better every week. So the fact that, like, she gave me that note last week and then recognized how hard we worked to get to this point is, like, just the most satisfying feeling when people recognize your hard work for what it is.