Anna Waronker: The Rockstar MILF - Episode 3

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Anna Waronker: The Rockstar MILF – Episode 3

The Recap

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.

Episode Highlights

02:19 – Googling Anna and her music videos
04:54 – Not being in the headspace to perform
06:06 – How it felt experimenting with music
07:29 – Anna on working on her solo career
08:21 – Struggling with anxiety as a rockstar and pulling the plug on touring
10:40 – The transition from performing to composing
13:00 – Anna’s segue into musical theatre
16:31 – Rock opera on Linda Lovelace and the true story about Linda
20:31 – Linda wanting to be a mother and Anna wanting to be a mother
24:00 – Anna on the process of giving birth and her birth plan
25:04 – Getting a different night nurse than the one Anna hired and what it was like
27:48 – Dealing with postpartum depression
31:06 – Planning on parenting in a way that didn’t feel right to Anna
32:09 – Anna’s son’s life-threatening disease and defining parenting
36:07 – How it felt parenting her son outside the box
37:16 – What’s Anna working on now
38:18 – Working while Anna’s son was a toddler
40:44 – Working without an income
44:16 – Something Anna’s changed her mind about recently
45:32 – How does Anna define success
46:28 – What does Anna think of when she hears “MILF”
48:06 – Lightning round of questions