Anna Waronker is a singer/songwriter, composer, producer, and the frontwoman for the band, That Dog. After working with That Dog, Anna continued to work on her solo career and founded the record company, “Five Foot Two Records.” She also composed and scored for various film and TV shows including Josie and the Pussycats, Dawson’s Creek, and Clueless (1996–1999). In addition, she has provided guest vocals for Say Anything, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Fun. Alongside her sister-in-law, Charlotte Caffey, Anna worked on Lovelace: A Rock Musical in 2008.
In this episode, we discuss Anna’s career in That Dog, her music videos, the evolution of her music genre, and experimenting with her music taste. Anna speaks about finding her own identity and working on her solo career as well as how it felt pushing herself outside her comfort zone while struggling with anxiety as a performer and dealing with panic attacks. She speaks of working with her sister-in-law on the rock opera dedicated to Linda Lovelace as well as the parallels between Linda and Anna. Anna reveals how it felt dealing with her son’s life-threatening disease and talks about compartmentalizing while being a parent, her parenting journey, and parenting out of the box.