April 22, 2026 • 39 mins
Somebody has to swing for the fences, and Diane Temme Stinton is living proof of what happens when you stop waiting for the “perfect” path.
In this episode, we sit down with Diane, CEO of TMCO (Total Manufacturing Company) in Lincoln, Nebraska, to talk about leading a second-generation, family-owned contract metal manufacturing business that powers other brands across agriculture, energy, biomedical, and architectural work, while still showing up for community projects and nonprofit partners.
Connect with Diane and the TMCO at:
· Website – https://www.tmcoinc.com/
· Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/TotalManufacturingCo/
· Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/tmcoinc
· LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/tmco-inc-/
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Diane Temme Stinton (00:00):
Somebody has to swing for the fences.
Announcer (00:06):
Welcome to Agency for Change, a podcast from KidGlov
that brings you the stories ofchange makers who are actively
working to improve ourcommunities.
In every episode, we'll meetwith people who are making a
lasting impact in the places wecall home.
Lyn Wineman (00:29):
Hey everyone, welcome back to the Agency for
Change podcast.
This is Lyn Wineman, presidentand chief strategist at KidGlov.
So if you have as much funlistening to this podcast today
as I did recording it, you arein for a treat.
Today's guest proves thatcareer paths don't always follow
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the sheet music.
And you'll understand why Isaid that in a minute.
Diane Temme Stinton started inRenaissance music, but she now
leads a manufacturing company.
She's launched a tech startup.
She supports the community andshe dreams big, very big.
And she's doing it all whileraising a family.
(01:13):
I can't wait for you to hearher story.
Let's dive in.
Diane, welcome to the podcast.
Diane Temme Stinton (01:21):
Thank you so much for having me.
Lyn Wineman (01:23):
I can't wait to hear about your story because
you have done so manyinteresting things and are doing
so many interesting things.
But I'd like to start with TMCOand just have you tell us more
about the company and the roleit plays in supporting
manufacturers and industriesacross the region.
(01:44):
Absolutely.
So TMCO stands for TotalManufacturing Company.
It is a contract metalmanufacturing company, which
means we don't make our ownproduct.
So if you need something madeout of metal, TMCO will make it.
I love it.
Diane Temme Stinton (02:01):
So we serve so many industry sectors,
including agriculture, energy.
We do some biomedical, we doarchitectural.
You can see some of our workall across the city of Lincoln,
actually Omaha and the rest ofthe state, in fact.
Lyn Wineman (02:18):
I love it.
Diane Temme Stinton (02:18):
So like the Second Gardens dome thing, the
giant ZOO letters that areLincoln Children's Zoo.
Our work is just all over therail yard.
We've done so many wonderfulcommunity things.
We've contributed to a lot ofdifferent nonprofits as well,
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doing that kind of work.
If you go to Morning Hope,shout out to my friends at
Morning Hope.
Lyn Wineman (02:44):
That's a great nonprofit.
We love Morning Hope.
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (02:48):
Beautiful work, and their new facility
really helps them like do thework that they do with
bereavement.
And a lot of our work is inthat building, and we donated
that to them.
And it really personalizesthat space.
It gives it a character and itreally allows the staff to
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really carry out the work thatthey do.
And so for us, you know, as amanufacturing company, we're
second generation, we'refamily-owned.
My father started the businessin 1974.
So we are celebrating our 51stanniversary, and it's just such
a pleasure and an honor to bein our Lincoln community, to
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give back to the community, toform so many meaningful
partnerships and just to be asupport and a service provider
to so many other companies inour region and in our community.
Lyn Wineman (03:44):
Diane, since you mentioned it, I actually didn't
realize this, but I have on mydesk a project that I think TMCO
worked on for a client of ourscalled BraveBe, who did these
great Christmas ornaments thathave a handwritten quote from
one of their kids.
And I have it on my deskbecause it's so cute that when I
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put away Christmas decorations,I couldn't put this one away.
So, and I know you've done somany big, little, small projects
like that.
But sometimes a project likethis that seems small, it's a
great way for them to thanktheir donors and be remembered.
So, anyway, thank you for allthat work that you do across the
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community.
So here's something I readabout you because there was
recently an article that hadyour story that was in the Omaha
World Herald and the LincolnJournal Star.
I read that you didn't actuallyset out to run a manufacturing
company.
And I understand you actuallyhave a PhD in music history.
(04:47):
I love hearing about people'sjourneys.
How did you get from one pointto the next?
Diane Temme Stinton (04:55):
I got lost, I think, in like—
Lyn Wineman (04:58):
Oh well, sometimes getting lost is the best way to
find what you need, right?
Diane Temme Stinton (05:02):
I think so.
I think I got lost.
So music has always been agreat passion of mine.
I was very, I was very involvedin music when I was in high
school and going into college.
And then there were a couple ofthings that happened, a couple
setbacks, a couple of thingswhere, you know, life doesn't go
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your way. Can you imagine?
Yeah. Right.
You know, it feels at some point like when
you have those firstexperiences of disappointment,
and not just disappointment,but, where there's like politics
involved and it doesn't feelgood, you know.
So there were a few things thathappened to me where it just
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felt like, wow, this is reallynot fair, and the system is
rigged, and I became verydisillusioned.
And so I went to theUniversity of Nebraska here in
Lincoln, and I kind of quitmusic for a while.
And so I was studying Germanand international studies, the
German department at theuniversity is was amazing, is
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and was amazing.
Lyn Wineman (06:11):
I love it.
Diane Temme Stinton (06:12):
And I just had such wonderful mentors
there.
I ended up studying abroad withthe university.
I was in Berlin for a while,and then you know, upon coming
back, I was still looking formyself, and you know, but the
passion for music has and is andwill always be there, and so I
just had to go back to music,and so I thought, well, if I'm
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gonna go do that, I might aswell try a different experience.
So then I moved to Bangor inNorth Wales, in the United
Kingdom.
Lyn Wineman (06:43):
Wow.
Diane Temme Stinton (06:44):
Yep.
If you're gonna be different,just be different.
Lyn Wineman (06:47):
Do it.
Diane Temme Stinton (06:49):
I went over there, and at that time, Bangor
University now, in NorthWales, they have such amazing
faculty and such strong peoplein the fields of early music.
And eventually, I met mymentor who is my doctoral
supervisor, who specializes in16th century music, and he
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somehow convinced me thatsomehow I may have— I may be
good at this.
Lyn Wineman (07:16):
Wow, he brought you back right after that bad
experience.
I love that.
Diane Temme Stinton (07:21):
It did, and you know, like it's the people
that see you.
That's a theme in my life, likepeople who see you along the
way and really mentor and giveyou that confidence.
And so, you know, this thismentor really encouraged me in
that area.
And, you know, I really, reallylove languages, I love history,
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I love a puzzle.
And so doing the PhD in earlymusic kind of combined all of
those passions for me and so itwas really an amazing
experience.
But then, you know, I graduatedin 2009 from the University of
Nebraska.
And I'm one of thosemillennials that, at that time,
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there were no jobs because ofChristmas.
Lyn Wineman (08:08):
It was a tough time to be in business.
That's the year, or that's justabout the time I started
KidGlov.
It was a tough time to start abusiness, it was a tough time to
look for a job.
It was just a tough time.
It was tough.
Diane Temme Stinton (08:22):
And so I just joke that everybody my age,
like we're all over educatedand underqualified to do
anything.
I went to grad school andcontinued because of the job
market.
It was—
Lyn Wineman (08:32):
Yeah.
Were all kind of differing,right?
And anyway, so, after that, Ithought I would go into
academia, I thought I wouldteach the children, I thought,
you know, that would be mycareer and I would be doing
research.
And then I applied for ahumanities fellowship at the
University of Michigan.
(08:53):
And I got a rejection letter,which would be, and it said,
you know, thank you for yourapplication.
You know, unfortunately, we hada very, very strong pool of
applicants, and out of the 900applicants, you weren't in the
top 10.
And I thought, my God, likethere are 900 people applying
(09:16):
for this one thing.
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (09:20):
A humanities fellowship position
that paid like $45,000.
Lyn Wineman (09:26):
Yeah, right.
I don't know if you can live inMichigan for that.
Maybe you could have in 2009,but I don't know.
Diane Temme Stinton (09:33):
Yes, not today, but I mean, it was at
that point where I thought thisdoesn't seem viable, and a lot
of things are adding up, andthere's a lot of criticism, you
know, like around highereducation today about, you know,
producing too many graduateswhere there's no jobs.
Right.
And anyway, so then I startedto kind of, you know, kind of
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think about my options.
I came back to Nebraska.
I started working for thefamily biz, and it was, you
know, it's a time in my lifethat I wouldn't replace for
anything.
I mean, having the luxury ofbeing able to work alongside my
father, who is the founder.
I worked for my dad for a goodfive years.
And that really was kind of theapprenticeship into the CEO
(10:18):
position.
So, really, I got so muchon-the-job training.
I was still doing some adjunctteaching, but then there was
also just kind of a point whereI was ready to let that go.
So here we are.
Lyn Wineman (10:29):
Wow, I love this story.
You know, what I think is greatabout a story like that is
there are so many differentunexpected experiences that I'm
sure have been extremely helpfulto where you are and what
you're doing today.
Would you agree?
Diane Temme Stinton (10:49):
Absolutely.
And you know what?
Like it's really funny becauseI'm not a goal setter.
Like not, I'm very anti-goals.
And I'm also veryanti-planning.
Like, I don't know.
Lyn Wineman (11:00):
You're a very successful person for an
anti-goal, anti-planning person.
So whatever you're doing, it'sworking.
Diane Temme Stinton (11:07):
Well, I don't, hear me out though.
Hear me out.
Yeah, so like I don't believein in goal setting, and I don't
really believe in, you know,that five-year plan.
Because if I thought back fiveyears, like I am nowhere where I
thought I'd be.
But I think that, you know, wekind of instead, like, you know,
you kind of have a North Star,you have your personal values,
(11:28):
you have, you know, a generaldirection that you're working
towards.
But I think, you know, leavingyourself open for the
possibilities that life throw atyou, like, I think you're much
more receptive to, you know,opportunities in life.
Like if you're open about like,you know, maybe goals and
(11:49):
different things that you mightfind, you know, gems in places
you wouldn't have otherwiselived.
Lyn Wineman (11:55):
Yeah, Diane, I think that is a really, really
great message.
And I do, I do really, reallyappreciate that.
I want to ask you one morequestion about TMCO, because
you've had such an incrediblejourney to the organization, at
the organization.
You know, when I think of TMCOin the community, the two things
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that I know about theorganization are number one, you
do great work.
I don't really fully understandyour work, but I know that you
do great work.
And I know that you have agreat culture.
I'm really curious, like, whatare the things for you that have
gone into being able to run acompany that does great work and
(12:40):
has a great culture?
Diane Temme Stinton (12:42):
Oh man.
Well, it— To me, it's all abouttrust.
Trust in your team, trust inyour people, our customers trust
us, our community trusts us,and we trust each other.
And so when we hire employees,you know, I always tell my HR
team, you know, if you're notcomfortable letting somebody in
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your house, why would you whywould you let them in here?
I would feel comfortable, andI'm not even I'm not even just
saying this.
I am— I would leave my childrenin the care of any one of these
employees.
Lyn Wineman (13:19):
Wow.
Diane Temme Stinton (13:19):
Not for a long time.
Lyn Wineman (13:20):
No, I'm kidding.
They're three years old and five years old.
Yeah, yeah, that's a handful.
Diane Temme Stinton (13:27):
And if I had to have somebody watch my
kids for a second, there'snobody in this company that I
would say, oh God, absolutelynot.
Like I— We trust each other.
We trust people.
And you know, when you hirehigh caliber people, and that's
not just about, you know,capacity or capability or
skills, you know, you can'tteach trust.
Lyn Wineman (13:49):
Right.
Like there's so many thingsabout untangibles where for
things like skills, you cantrain, you can put— you can
teach people.
Right.
Diane Temme Stinton (14:00):
Trust factor and good character is not
something that you can, youknow, teach somebody.
So, you know, trust, goodcharacter, and you know, it's
the accountability of saying,you know, we are who we are and
we're gonna do what we say we'regonna do.
Lyn Wineman (14:18):
I love that so much.
I love too how that trustaspect, when you think about the
the two things that we'retalking about, high quality work
and an amazing culture.
I mean, trust is the throughline for both of those things,
isn't it?
So congratulations—
Diane Temme Stinton (14:35):
Thank you.
—for being that.
It's about, you know, like you have to
care.
And I— this is now a famousquestion.
Like when I used to be a lightdirect hiring, and when I was
doing that for Anchovy.
Lyn Wineman (14:47):
I can't wait to talk about Anchovy.
Diane Temme Stinton (14:50):
Yeah, I ask interviewees, what do you care
about?
And it's really imperative inour company that you care about
something bigger than yourself.
Really clear when you do andwhether that is family, the
environment, your community, youknow, like where you're really
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out to do something, right?
Lyn Wineman (15:13):
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (15:13):
I find that that makes such a huge
difference too.
Lyn Wineman (15:16):
I love that, Diane.
And speaking of being out to dosomething, so you're running a
manufacturing company, you're abusy working mom, but then
you've layered on top of that,you have a new project called
Anchovy.
Such a cute name.
Can you tell us about Anchovy?
Diane Temme Stinton (15:35):
Sure.
So Anchovy is a recipe storageapp.
It's designed to be a placewhere you can store all your
recipes and easily share themwith friends or family.
For me, like I had it like thatmessy binder of recipes that I
have had.
Screenshots, I have bookmarkwebsites, I have things
(15:56):
everywhere.
And so it's just one placewhere you can have like all of
your things and easily sharethat with family and friends,
and then also you can convertthose recipes into consolidated
grocery lists that you can tickoff when you're at the store.
Lyn Wineman (16:11):
That is so important because my failure in
cooking is always I am missingone or two ingredients, and I
think I'm gonna fake it.
And I am not good enough of acook to fake a missing
ingredient, right?
I'm just not, yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (16:27):
Or you think like you're at the store
and you're like, oh crap, I wasgonna make this, but I don't
know what I need.
I was supposed to— Hey, I don'tremember what I need.
And so, you know, just havingall of that on your phone in
this day and age just makes toomuch sense.
Lyn Wineman (16:40):
Yeah, a hundred percent.
So, what's the process like?
So you kind of you had thisidea, you had a need.
Where did you go from there?
Because a lot of people have anidea, they have a need, but
they never take the next step,but you did.
Diane Temme Stinton (16:56):
Yeah, well, and that's like that's another
theme, like in my life, in mygrowth, like journey, being a
CEO and being a founder.
Like, let me tell you, it takesa different courage to become a
founder.
Lyn Wineman (17:09):
Yeah.
As a founder myself, I get it,right?
Like, yes.
Diane Temme Stinton (17:15):
Yes, and being a CEO, being responsible
for a company and all thedecisions, but when the company
already kind of exists and it'sjust about like, oh, okay, well,
maybe we need to tweakdirections, maybe we need to
change a few things.
So different than buildingsomething from the ground up.
So I learned that.
There was a point, even beforeI became CEO, where the question
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was like, would you bet onyourself?
And for a long time I couldn'tsay that I would.
Lyn Wineman (17:45):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
And then, you know, like beingCEO, that was again one thing.
And then, I had a kid andthen another kid, and this was
after my second child was born.
And you know, you just mom lifeis different things.
(18:06):
If you're not a mom, it's really hard to
understand.
Having been a mom and now agrandma, right?
Like I get to see my kids raisetheir kids, right?
Which is seriously the coolestthing ever.
But it's a it's a lot.
It's a lot.
Diane Temme Stinton (18:22):
It's so hard.
It's hard, you know.
And I'm thinking to myself,like after my second child was
bored, you know, I'm the CEO ofthis company, I'm a— I'm an
educated person, I'm highlyfunctional.
And I wasn't even, I didn'thave postpartum depression, I
didn't have complications.
I had a great support group.
I, you know, marriage will do,thank God. A lot of things,
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like, are working in your favor.
And even then, I felt like Idon't know how I'm supposed to
do this.
And you go from like, oh,beautiful miracle life, to I'm a
terrible mom, like so quickly.
And what is overwhelming andfrustrating, and I'm thinking to
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myself, too, like surelythere's a tool, surely there's
something out there.
So I started downloading likeevery you know, recipe food app
that I could find, and I justdidn't like the experience of
each.
And so, so then the first thingthat I did after I had this
idea was I started talking tosome friends.
(19:28):
Yeah, I reached out to was myfriend Jane Griffin.
We had lunch, it was at theScarlet.
This is a—
Lyn Wineman (19:34):
I love the Scarlet, by the way.
It's a great hotel on theUniversity of Nebraska's
innovation campus.
Diane Temme Stinton (19:41):
Yeah, yes, and that is a this is an
infamous date in the Anchovyhistory where—
Lyn Wineman (19:45):
I love it.
Diane Temme Stinton (19:47):
And I said, and Jane, Jane Griffin is the
most put together person that Iknow.
Just, oh my god, to be her.
And she's a mentor to me aswell.
And I sat down with Jane and Isaid, Jane, this is how I feel.
This is the problem.
Do you have this problem?
And she said, Yes.
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Like, you know, when you thinkabout what are you gonna have
for dinner, like, oh.
Lyn Wineman (20:13):
Yeah, right?
Like, I've already had a hardfull day.
I'm gonna have two childrenrunning around under my feet.
I'm exhausted and I'm hungry,and they're hungry.
What are we gonna have fordinner?
And I and and I forgot to thawanything out, so I guess it's a
happy meal, which we all knowalso makes us feel like a
terrible parent to feed ourchildren happy meals.
(20:35):
Yes.
Diane Temme Stinton (20:37):
And my god, did we have chicken.
Like I'll go through.
But no, that's absolutelyright.
So I, you know, talking toJane, and you know, I said,
here's here are the problemsthat I see too, you know, like
just first you need to get allyour stuff in one space, and
then after that, you know, it'sjust that emotional energy of
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trying to figure out what youwant to eat, and you know, how
can we also share in that?
So, for example, you know, likeyour grandkids, I guarantee
you, whatever they eat, my kidswill probably eat too.
Lyn Wineman (21:09):
Probably.
It feels like we're all doingthis in isolation.
And especially, I think youknow, anybody who is like, you
know, the chef of their familyis that it's a it's a big burden
that it's like they're justkind of bearing the load.
I don't talk to my friendsabout, so what do you make for
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dinner?
What do your kids like to eat?
What do you, you know—
Right, right.
We don't share in that way andwe should because like I think
we're all kind of suffering insilence and we're all facing the
same problem.
So I thought, why don't wecreate a space that builds
community?
Like and share together foreveryone's path.
Yeah, yeah, I love that, right?
(21:52):
Like we share music, we shareratings on places we go,
restaurants.
Why not make community?
Around something that kind ofis difficult and stressful.
Diane Temme Stinton (22:05):
Yes.
And also, like, I mean, you canGoogle stuff online.
You can go to ChatGPT to find,you know, whatever recipes, most
popular recipes.
But at the same time, it'slike, you know, the— I'm much
more likely to, if you gave me arecipe and told me, screw by
this, this is so great.
Lyn Wineman (22:24):
Yeah, 100%.
Diane Temme Stinton (22:26):
Yes.
I would 1,000% trust you andtry that, right?
Right.
Because we have a personalrelationship.
Whereas, you know, like ifthere's like a rating system,
it's like 3,000 people ratedthis five stars.
Like, well, okay, I don't knowwhat that means.
Or some people leave reviewsonline, like this recipe is
terrible.
It came out way too salty.
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And it's like, did you measure?
Do you know how like it's veryobvious that like they didn't
really know whatthey were doing.
Yeah.
But like why we, you know, and I think
regionally too, you know, likewe eat similar foods, I think,
like whether it's based onheritage or ingredients,
seasonalities, and other things.
So, you know, I think thatthere's definitely ways that we
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can like come together.
Lyn Wineman (23:12):
Yeah, you know, Diane, what I love about this is
in one of your earliercomments, I wrote down these
words about the importance ofthe people who see you.
And when I think of what you'redoing with Anchovy, I feel like
you are seeing a whole sectionof busy working parents, right?
(23:35):
Who have this stress and you'repulling the community
together.
And so I love it when thingscome full circle, and I really
like that.
But I gotta ask you the— here'sthe question in my mind how'd
you come up with the name?
Being a branding person, I lovethe name anchovy, it's so cute,
(23:55):
right?
But I don't know anybody whoeats anchovies personally, but
it's super cute as a name.
Diane Temme Stinton (24:02):
Well, I like anchovy because it is a
little community fish, it's nota solo swimmer.
Like it swims together withother fish, so there's that.
We were trying to be so cleverwith it.
Yeah.
We're trying to do like, youknow, you know, food community,
food fan.
Lyn Wineman (24:22):
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (24:23):
Sugar, feed something, plate, whatever, but
like coming up with an originalname in this day and age, and
then you have to also like doesit sound like an existing
company?
Lyn Wineman (24:33):
Right, right.
Can you get a URL?
Can you get a math name, right?
Like all the things, yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (24:38):
All the things.
And so then we were just likespinning in circles.
Like, I don't know.
And then I was driving in mycar going down K Street, like—
Lyn Wineman (24:51):
I was just on K Street earlier today. I know,
yes.
I know exactly where I wasagain when this thought occurred
to me, but I was thinking aboutthe button app, which is now
no more mint.
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (25:04):
And I thought mint, like it's money
related, yeah.
So one word kind of catchy, andI thought maybe we're trying
too hard.
It's so—
Lyn Wineman (25:17):
Yeah, right?
I was thinking to myself,Anchovy, and so then that's
kind of where it started.
It's like anchovy, and I startthinking about anchovies, and
then I pitched it to Jane andJane Griffin, who is now my
senior project manager.
I love this.
I don't know Jane, but I feellike I want to know Jane.
(25:40):
You should.
She sounds amazing.
Diane Temme Stinton (25:42):
Yeah, oh, and you need her recipes, like—
Lyn Wineman (25:45):
Okay.
I'm joining the app as soon aswe're done to look for Jane's
recipes.
Diane Temme Stinton (25:51):
Yeah, so Anchovy.
So one, so I told her likeAnchovy and her reaction.
I know we're not doing video,but I just should—
Lyn Wineman (26:02):
It was, okay, she grimaced, she didn't instantly
jump onto it, right?
Diane Temme Stinton (26:07):
Oh no, she thought that it she thought it
was terrible. But it's grown oneverybody, and there's a couple
of things like—
Lyn Wineman (26:15):
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (26:16):
There's a repellent quality to anchovy.
Lyn Wineman (26:19):
Right.
There's a repellent quality todinner, there's repellent
quality to the grime, there's arepellent quality, like anchovy
is the you know.
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (26:31):
But here's the deal too like if you are a
serious chef, you will know thatyou know the secret to Caesar
salad is anchovy.
It's a savory, it's a veryeyebrow ingredient that a lot
of people use in very, verysophisticated cooking and
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cuisine.
Lyn Wineman (26:52):
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (26:53):
And so, you know, I thought how
interesting, like because itapplies in like a lot of
different contexts that youknow, and it's also a very
pretty original name.
Lyn Wineman (27:04):
Yeah, I love it so much.
Honestly, I think I did notknow anything about anchovies as
animals, but the fact thatthey're community fish, I love
that.
And I think the repellentfactor also, like to me, when I
think of the app Anchovy, I kindof you kind of the question in
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the back of your head is like,Will I like this recipe?
Will my kids like this recipe?
You know, and I think theanchovy thing kind of very
subconsciously brings up thatpoint in the back of your mind
too.
And it's just cute and fun tosay.
Like, I think when you namesomething, giving it something
that's cute and fun to say, Ithink has a cool aspect to it
(27:48):
too.
Diane Temme Stinton (27:50):
And also, you know, like so we have like a
little yearbook, and it wejust got an ocean book from
Barnes and Noble, and we're likewe kind of sign it as we get
new employees.
And on the cover of it, I wrotemy little introview motto,
which is, "Little fish, bigdreams." And so, and also like
in the app space, if you'redoing a con— a mass consumer
(28:12):
product, let me tell you, like,it is insane.
Like, nobody should do it.
It's like craziness, it's—
Lyn Wineman (28:22):
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (28:23):
Impossible.
It's—
Lyn Wineman (28:25):
Right.
Diane Temme Stinton (28:25):
It's very hard.
It's hard to get people'sattention, it's hard to get them
time and energy to try a newthing, and so you know it's but
I don't know, like the big dreamis to become the first
worldwide food app.
Lyn Wineman (28:40):
I love it so much.
All right, everybody who'slistening, you can help Diane
fulfill her dream, download theapp, try out the recipes.
I— She didn't know I was gonnasay that, but I'm—
Diane Temme Stinton (28:52):
It's on Google Play and Apple Store. It
is free to use.
Lyn Wineman (28:57):
I love it.
Diane Temme Stinton (28:57):
And we are doing a fundraiser right now
in partnership with KETV Omahaof the food bank for the
Heartland, and so Julie Cornell,who's an anchor on KETV.
Lyn Wineman (29:14):
I love Julie Cornell.
I love Julie Cornell in this.
She is a big Anchovy fan, notthe food.
I love it.
Diane Temme Stinton (29:24):
And so she has a cookbook of her favorite
recipes that is available forsale, 19.99, and all that
benefit will go towards the foodbank.
Lyn Wineman (29:36):
Oh, what a great cause! See, I love that how
you're tying together business,community, giving back.
And actually, I've been wantingto ask you this, right?
Because Diane, you are runninga manufacturing company, you're
the founder of an app, you arethe mother of small children who
are kind of in that mostdifficult phase, I'm gonna say.
(29:58):
I think that three to fivephase, that's not easy.
Like you have to be a childpsychologist on top of
everything else.
Instead of asking you how youdo it, I want to ask you how do
each of those things inform theother, right?
Like, how does the— you likepuzzles, how does the Diane
Temme Stinton puzzle kind ofwork together there?
Diane Temme Stinton (30:21):
Oh man.
The mom and wife piece goesover everything else.
Lyn Wineman (30:30):
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (30:31):
So—
Lyn Wineman (30:31):
Amazing.
Diane Temme Stinton (30:33):
My family is the most important thing to
me.
My kids, setting my kids up tobe hopefully productive and
successful humans.
Lyn Wineman (30:41):
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (30:42):
And so, you know, the that's the the
overlaying consideration.
So doing Anchovy, you know, I'mdoing this, you know, as a busy
mom, trying to create toolsthat enable me to be not only a
better mom, but then a betterCEO because I'm spending less
time on the things that likedon't matter.
Lyn Wineman (31:04):
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (31:05):
Claim it for the things that do.
Lyn Wineman (31:07):
I love that.
That's amazing.
That's amazing.
So what's next for you, Diane?
What are you looking forwardto?
Diane Temme Stinton (31:14):
Oh man, it's like we talked about at the
beginning, right?
So, like kind of North Startype stuff.
We are looking forward to abrand refresh with Anchovy.
So like you have to get the upnow, so then you can like—
Lyn Wineman (31:28):
Okay.
Diane Temme Stinton (31:30):
Hit the refresh.
And—
Lyn Wineman (31:31):
I love it.
Diane Temme Stinton (31:32):
A fun experience.
I'm looking forward to on theAnchovy side, I'm looking
forward to supporting more smallbusinesses.
So, you know, we have a lot ofpeople in our community who are
like literally invisible to thenaked eye.
So, for example, there arepeople who are baking out of
their homes.
They have a cottage foodlicense, they're trying to
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create a business, they maybewant a storefront, but you know,
they need to try to build acustomer base, Right.
You know, people who are alsomaybe running restaurants, it's
a different way to maybe engagewith people and also add like
maybe a different revenue streamwhere we're looking forward to
working with other nonprofitsfor fundraisers on the Anchovy.
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And then we're also lookingforward to supporting our
culinary institutions.
And so we just have a lot ofthings going on.
I'm really, really excited tosee kind of where that all takes
us.
On the TMCO side, I'm justreally excited about, you know,
in manufacturing, you kind ofhave to roll with a lot of
(32:35):
punches.
And we're getting
Lyn Wineman (32:36):
Yeah. Oh, it has been an interesting year, I'm
guessing, right?
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (32:40):
Yeah, let's not talk about the T-word. But
no, it feels like we've gottenkind of, you know, you've gotten
punched, and you know, you haveto pivot and you have to roll
and you have to, you know,there's always new opportunities
though.
And so I'm just really excitedabout just again, like keeping
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our minds open foropportunities.
And I feel like again, lookingback to my background, you know,
that just really allows you tothink creatively.
I think my superpower is thatlike the obvious solution is
never my solution.
I just live outside the box.
I'm not an in-the-box kind ofperson.
Lyn Wineman (33:21):
I love it, I love it.
Diane Temme Stinton (33:22):
Yeah, so that's what I'm looking forward
to.
And again, because I'm not agoal setter, I can't tell you
what my goal is, but I can tellyou that I feel like you know
the sky's the limit.
Lyn Wineman (33:33):
Your eyes are open to the opportunities.
I love it.
Diane, for people who arelistening that want to find out
more, let's start with how canthey get on to Anchovy?
I'm imagining we just go to theapp store and search for
Anchovy.
Diane Temme Stinton (33:48):
Absolutely.
So Google Play, Apple Store.
But for more information aboutthe website, you could also find
us at www.anchovy.
Lyn Wineman (33:57):
I love it.
I also love that you got thatURL that's easy for people to
find.
So good for you.
And TMCO, how do we find outmore about TMCO?
Diane Temme Stinton (34:07):
Absolutely.
So www.tmclinc.com,tmcoinc.com.
Lyn Wineman (34:14):
Got it.
All right.
We'll make sure to get both ofthose, Diane, into the show
notes.
I want to ask you one morequestion before I'm gonna ask
you our standard agency forchange question that everyone's
answered.
Diane, I'm really curious.
I think I've got a feel for alot of your answers today, but I
want to ask you this question.
What do you care about, Diane?
(34:36):
Oh wow.
You know, I care about justbeing a force for good.
Care about being a force forgood.
I care about, you know, likethere's such a stigma about like
industry.
I mean, there are companiesthat make other companies look
(34:59):
real bad, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (35:01):
But I do want people to know that like
there are a lot of ethicalcompanies, there are a lot of
companies who care, who careabout communities, and also
technology.
There are a lot of bad actorsin technology.
Lyn Wineman (35:14):
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (35:15):
You know, like in a global level, right?
Like we see, you know, the theZuckerbergs and the Bezos's.
And I think, you know, you kindof get looped into kind of the,
you know, there's some sketchythings in like big tech.
Lyn Wineman (35:32):
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (35:33):
So I just have this vision that, you know,
we can do so much good.
And I know there's others outthere who feel the same way, but
I just feel like, you know,good, you know, good companies
just have to continue to have apresence and that the public
can't just lose hope that, youknow, everybody's corrupt and
(35:54):
everybody's just out for money.
Like we, there are good peopleout there.
Lyn Wineman (35:58):
A hundred percent.
Diane, I feel that's why I feellucky to be located in Lincoln,
Nebraska.
I feel like this is theepicenter of companies doing
good, doing the right thing.
So thank you for thank you forletting me ask you that question
and and thank you for sharing.
All right, the next question, Itold you we're we're getting
(36:18):
close to our 300th episode, andI've asked this question on
every episode.
And I am actually a collectorof quotes, right?
I love quotes, and I like to gointo my quote vault for
different things.
Actually, if you could see myoffice, I have quotes all around
me.
I would like a Diane TemmeStinton original quote to share
(36:41):
with our listeners.
Diane Temme Stinton (36:42):
Okay, I'm going to derive it from
something that somebody said tome that I felt like a
compliment.
And it was this, "Somebody hasto swing for the fences."
Somebody has to swing for thefences.
And, you know, I think that inour lives, you know, like we
spend a lot of our time justtrying to get on first or trying
(37:05):
to, you know, like, and youknow, obviously, I think from
our conversation, no surprisethat I'm a
very go-big-or-go-home type.
Lyn Wineman (37:13):
Yeah, right.
I'm learning that about as ifI suspected it, but you have
yes, you have confirmed mysuspicions.
Diane Temme Stinton (37:22):
Yeah. When you think about that, you know,
well, somebody has to swing forthe fences.
Well, why not you?
Lyn Wineman (37:28):
Right.
Diane Temme Stinton (37:29):
That's my challenge, you know, to the
listenership today.
Like, why not you?
And why not us?
And why not here?
Swing for the fences.
Lyn Wineman (37:37):
I love it.
So inspiring.
That is A+ on that assignment.
Diane Temme Stinton (37:42):
I don't even like baseball.
I'd be pulled us close sure.
But I do like that metaphor.
I hear you, I hear you.
All right, Diane, I have lovedthis conversation so much.
And as we wrap up our timetogether today, I'd like to ask
you what's the of all the thingswe've talked about, you've
covered the things you careabout, the things you dream
(38:04):
about, what is the mostimportant thing you'd like our
listeners to remember about thework that you're doing?
You know, I think in ourcommunity of Lincoln, you know,
where we share similar passions,where we share similar
missions.
Like, please connect.
Please connect others, pleaseconnect with me, because we can
(38:26):
just do more when we worktogether.
Lyn Wineman (38:28):
Yeah, I love that so much.
Diane, it has been such apleasure to talk with you.
I fully believe the world needsmore people like you, more
organizations like TMCO, moreapps like Anchovy.
Thank you for taking time outto talk with us today.
Thank you so much.
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Welcome to Agency for Change, a podcast from KidGlov
that brings you the stories ofchange makers who are actively
working to improve ourcommunities.
In every episode, we'll meetwith people who are making a
lasting impact in the places wecall home.
Lyn Wineman (00:29):
Hey everyone, welcome back to the Agency for
Change podcast.
This is Lyn Wineman, presidentand chief strategist at KidGlov.
So if you have as much funlistening to this podcast today
as I did recording it, you arein for a treat.
Today's guest proves thatcareer paths don't always follow
(00:50):
the sheet music.
And you'll understand why Isaid that in a minute.
Diane Temme Stinton started inRenaissance music, but she now
leads a manufacturing company.
She's launched a tech startup.
She supports the community andshe dreams big, very big.
And she's doing it all whileraising a family.
(01:13):
I can't wait for you to hearher story.
Let's dive in.
Diane, welcome to the podcast.
Diane Temme Stinton (01:21):
Thank you so much for having me.
Lyn Wineman (01:23):
I can't wait to hear about your story because
you have done so manyinteresting things and are doing
so many interesting things.
But I'd like to start with TMCOand just have you tell us more
about the company and the roleit plays in supporting
manufacturers and industriesacross the region.
(01:44):
Absolutely.
So TMCO stands for TotalManufacturing Company.
It is a contract metalmanufacturing company, which
means we don't make our ownproduct.
So if you need something madeout of metal, TMCO will make it.
I love it.
Diane Temme Stinton (02:01):
So we serve so many industry sectors,
including agriculture, energy.
We do some biomedical, we doarchitectural.
You can see some of our workall across the city of Lincoln,
actually Omaha and the rest ofthe state, in fact.
Lyn Wineman (02:18):
I love it.
Diane Temme Stinton (02:18):
So like the Second Gardens dome thing, the
giant ZOO letters that areLincoln Children's Zoo.
Our work is just all over therail yard.
We've done so many wonderfulcommunity things.
We've contributed to a lot ofdifferent nonprofits as well,
(02:38):
doing that kind of work.
If you go to Morning Hope,shout out to my friends at
Morning Hope.
Lyn Wineman (02:44):
That's a great nonprofit.
We love Morning Hope.
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (02:48):
Beautiful work, and their new facility
really helps them like do thework that they do with
bereavement.
And a lot of our work is inthat building, and we donated
that to them.
And it really personalizesthat space.
It gives it a character and itreally allows the staff to
(03:09):
really carry out the work thatthey do.
And so for us, you know, as amanufacturing company, we're
second generation, we'refamily-owned.
My father started the businessin 1974.
So we are celebrating our 51stanniversary, and it's just such
a pleasure and an honor to bein our Lincoln community, to
(03:31):
give back to the community, toform so many meaningful
partnerships and just to be asupport and a service provider
to so many other companies inour region and in our community.
Lyn Wineman (03:44):
Diane, since you mentioned it, I actually didn't
realize this, but I have on mydesk a project that I think TMCO
worked on for a client of ourscalled BraveBe, who did these
great Christmas ornaments thathave a handwritten quote from
one of their kids.
And I have it on my deskbecause it's so cute that when I
(04:06):
put away Christmas decorations,I couldn't put this one away.
So, and I know you've done somany big, little, small projects
like that.
But sometimes a project likethis that seems small, it's a
great way for them to thanktheir donors and be remembered.
So, anyway, thank you for allthat work that you do across the
(04:27):
community.
So here's something I readabout you because there was
recently an article that hadyour story that was in the Omaha
World Herald and the LincolnJournal Star.
I read that you didn't actuallyset out to run a manufacturing
company.
And I understand you actuallyhave a PhD in music history.
(04:47):
I love hearing about people'sjourneys.
How did you get from one pointto the next?
Diane Temme Stinton (04:55):
I got lost, I think, in like—
Lyn Wineman (04:58):
Oh well, sometimes getting lost is the best way to
find what you need, right?
Diane Temme Stinton (05:02):
I think so.
I think I got lost.
So music has always been agreat passion of mine.
I was very, I was very involvedin music when I was in high
school and going into college.
And then there were a couple ofthings that happened, a couple
setbacks, a couple of thingswhere, you know, life doesn't go
(05:25):
your way. Can you imagine?
Yeah. Right.
You know, it feels at some point like when
you have those firstexperiences of disappointment,
and not just disappointment,but, where there's like politics
involved and it doesn't feelgood, you know.
So there were a few things thathappened to me where it just
(05:46):
felt like, wow, this is reallynot fair, and the system is
rigged, and I became verydisillusioned.
And so I went to theUniversity of Nebraska here in
Lincoln, and I kind of quitmusic for a while.
And so I was studying Germanand international studies, the
German department at theuniversity is was amazing, is
(06:10):
and was amazing.
Lyn Wineman (06:11):
I love it.
Diane Temme Stinton (06:12):
And I just had such wonderful mentors
there.
I ended up studying abroad withthe university.
I was in Berlin for a while,and then you know, upon coming
back, I was still looking formyself, and you know, but the
passion for music has and is andwill always be there, and so I
just had to go back to music,and so I thought, well, if I'm
(06:34):
gonna go do that, I might aswell try a different experience.
So then I moved to Bangor inNorth Wales, in the United
Kingdom.
Lyn Wineman (06:43):
Wow.
Diane Temme Stinton (06:44):
Yep.
If you're gonna be different,just be different.
Lyn Wineman (06:47):
Do it.
Diane Temme Stinton (06:49):
I went over there, and at that time, Bangor
University now, in NorthWales, they have such amazing
faculty and such strong peoplein the fields of early music.
And eventually, I met mymentor who is my doctoral
supervisor, who specializes in16th century music, and he
(07:11):
somehow convinced me thatsomehow I may have— I may be
good at this.
Lyn Wineman (07:16):
Wow, he brought you back right after that bad
experience.
I love that.
Diane Temme Stinton (07:21):
It did, and you know, like it's the people
that see you.
That's a theme in my life, likepeople who see you along the
way and really mentor and giveyou that confidence.
And so, you know, this thismentor really encouraged me in
that area.
And, you know, I really, reallylove languages, I love history,
(07:44):
I love a puzzle.
And so doing the PhD in earlymusic kind of combined all of
those passions for me and so itwas really an amazing
experience.
But then, you know, I graduatedin 2009 from the University of
Nebraska.
And I'm one of thosemillennials that, at that time,
(08:06):
there were no jobs because ofChristmas.
Lyn Wineman (08:08):
It was a tough time to be in business.
That's the year, or that's justabout the time I started
KidGlov.
It was a tough time to start abusiness, it was a tough time to
look for a job.
It was just a tough time.
It was tough.
Diane Temme Stinton (08:22):
And so I just joke that everybody my age,
like we're all over educatedand underqualified to do
anything.
I went to grad school andcontinued because of the job
market.
It was—
Lyn Wineman (08:32):
Yeah.
Were all kind of differing,right?
And anyway, so, after that, Ithought I would go into
academia, I thought I wouldteach the children, I thought,
you know, that would be mycareer and I would be doing
research.
And then I applied for ahumanities fellowship at the
University of Michigan.
(08:53):
And I got a rejection letter,which would be, and it said,
you know, thank you for yourapplication.
You know, unfortunately, we hada very, very strong pool of
applicants, and out of the 900applicants, you weren't in the
top 10.
And I thought, my God, likethere are 900 people applying
(09:16):
for this one thing.
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (09:20):
A humanities fellowship position
that paid like $45,000.
Lyn Wineman (09:26):
Yeah, right.
I don't know if you can live inMichigan for that.
Maybe you could have in 2009,but I don't know.
Diane Temme Stinton (09:33):
Yes, not today, but I mean, it was at
that point where I thought thisdoesn't seem viable, and a lot
of things are adding up, andthere's a lot of criticism, you
know, like around highereducation today about, you know,
producing too many graduateswhere there's no jobs.
Right.
And anyway, so then I startedto kind of, you know, kind of
(09:55):
think about my options.
I came back to Nebraska.
I started working for thefamily biz, and it was, you
know, it's a time in my lifethat I wouldn't replace for
anything.
I mean, having the luxury ofbeing able to work alongside my
father, who is the founder.
I worked for my dad for a goodfive years.
And that really was kind of theapprenticeship into the CEO
(10:18):
position.
So, really, I got so muchon-the-job training.
I was still doing some adjunctteaching, but then there was
also just kind of a point whereI was ready to let that go.
So here we are.
Lyn Wineman (10:29):
Wow, I love this story.
You know, what I think is greatabout a story like that is
there are so many differentunexpected experiences that I'm
sure have been extremely helpfulto where you are and what
you're doing today.
Would you agree?
Diane Temme Stinton (10:49):
Absolutely.
And you know what?
Like it's really funny becauseI'm not a goal setter.
Like not, I'm very anti-goals.
And I'm also veryanti-planning.
Like, I don't know.
Lyn Wineman (11:00):
You're a very successful person for an
anti-goal, anti-planning person.
So whatever you're doing, it'sworking.
Diane Temme Stinton (11:07):
Well, I don't, hear me out though.
Hear me out.
Yeah, so like I don't believein in goal setting, and I don't
really believe in, you know,that five-year plan.
Because if I thought back fiveyears, like I am nowhere where I
thought I'd be.
But I think that, you know, wekind of instead, like, you know,
you kind of have a North Star,you have your personal values,
(11:28):
you have, you know, a generaldirection that you're working
towards.
But I think, you know, leavingyourself open for the
possibilities that life throw atyou, like, I think you're much
more receptive to, you know,opportunities in life.
Like if you're open about like,you know, maybe goals and
(11:49):
different things that you mightfind, you know, gems in places
you wouldn't have otherwiselived.
Lyn Wineman (11:55):
Yeah, Diane, I think that is a really, really
great message.
And I do, I do really, reallyappreciate that.
I want to ask you one morequestion about TMCO, because
you've had such an incrediblejourney to the organization, at
the organization.
You know, when I think of TMCOin the community, the two things
(12:18):
that I know about theorganization are number one, you
do great work.
I don't really fully understandyour work, but I know that you
do great work.
And I know that you have agreat culture.
I'm really curious, like, whatare the things for you that have
gone into being able to run acompany that does great work and
(12:40):
has a great culture?
Diane Temme Stinton (12:42):
Oh man.
Well, it— To me, it's all abouttrust.
Trust in your team, trust inyour people, our customers trust
us, our community trusts us,and we trust each other.
And so when we hire employees,you know, I always tell my HR
team, you know, if you're notcomfortable letting somebody in
(13:05):
your house, why would you whywould you let them in here?
I would feel comfortable, andI'm not even I'm not even just
saying this.
I am— I would leave my childrenin the care of any one of these
employees.
Lyn Wineman (13:19):
Wow.
Diane Temme Stinton (13:19):
Not for a long time.
Lyn Wineman (13:20):
No, I'm kidding.
They're three years old and five years old.
Yeah, yeah, that's a handful.
Diane Temme Stinton (13:27):
And if I had to have somebody watch my
kids for a second, there'snobody in this company that I
would say, oh God, absolutelynot.
Like I— We trust each other.
We trust people.
And you know, when you hirehigh caliber people, and that's
not just about, you know,capacity or capability or
skills, you know, you can'tteach trust.
Lyn Wineman (13:49):
Right.
Like there's so many thingsabout untangibles where for
things like skills, you cantrain, you can put— you can
teach people.
Right.
Diane Temme Stinton (14:00):
Trust factor and good character is not
something that you can, youknow, teach somebody.
So, you know, trust, goodcharacter, and you know, it's
the accountability of saying,you know, we are who we are and
we're gonna do what we say we'regonna do.
Lyn Wineman (14:18):
I love that so much.
I love too how that trustaspect, when you think about the
the two things that we'retalking about, high quality work
and an amazing culture.
I mean, trust is the throughline for both of those things,
isn't it?
So congratulations—
Diane Temme Stinton (14:35):
Thank you.
—for being that.
It's about, you know, like you have to
care.
And I— this is now a famousquestion.
Like when I used to be a lightdirect hiring, and when I was
doing that for Anchovy.
Lyn Wineman (14:47):
I can't wait to talk about Anchovy.
Diane Temme Stinton (14:50):
Yeah, I ask interviewees, what do you care
about?
And it's really imperative inour company that you care about
something bigger than yourself.
Really clear when you do andwhether that is family, the
environment, your community, youknow, like where you're really
(15:10):
out to do something, right?
Lyn Wineman (15:13):
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (15:13):
I find that that makes such a huge
difference too.
Lyn Wineman (15:16):
I love that, Diane.
And speaking of being out to dosomething, so you're running a
manufacturing company, you're abusy working mom, but then
you've layered on top of that,you have a new project called
Anchovy.
Such a cute name.
Can you tell us about Anchovy?
Diane Temme Stinton (15:35):
Sure.
So Anchovy is a recipe storageapp.
It's designed to be a placewhere you can store all your
recipes and easily share themwith friends or family.
For me, like I had it like thatmessy binder of recipes that I
have had.
Screenshots, I have bookmarkwebsites, I have things
(15:56):
everywhere.
And so it's just one placewhere you can have like all of
your things and easily sharethat with family and friends,
and then also you can convertthose recipes into consolidated
grocery lists that you can tickoff when you're at the store.
Lyn Wineman (16:11):
That is so important because my failure in
cooking is always I am missingone or two ingredients, and I
think I'm gonna fake it.
And I am not good enough of acook to fake a missing
ingredient, right?
I'm just not, yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (16:27):
Or you think like you're at the store
and you're like, oh crap, I wasgonna make this, but I don't
know what I need.
I was supposed to— Hey, I don'tremember what I need.
And so, you know, just havingall of that on your phone in
this day and age just makes toomuch sense.
Lyn Wineman (16:40):
Yeah, a hundred percent.
So, what's the process like?
So you kind of you had thisidea, you had a need.
Where did you go from there?
Because a lot of people have anidea, they have a need, but
they never take the next step,but you did.
Diane Temme Stinton (16:56):
Yeah, well, and that's like that's another
theme, like in my life, in mygrowth, like journey, being a
CEO and being a founder.
Like, let me tell you, it takesa different courage to become a
founder.
Lyn Wineman (17:09):
Yeah.
As a founder myself, I get it,right?
Like, yes.
Diane Temme Stinton (17:15):
Yes, and being a CEO, being responsible
for a company and all thedecisions, but when the company
already kind of exists and it'sjust about like, oh, okay, well,
maybe we need to tweakdirections, maybe we need to
change a few things.
So different than buildingsomething from the ground up.
So I learned that.
There was a point, even beforeI became CEO, where the question
(17:38):
was like, would you bet onyourself?
And for a long time I couldn'tsay that I would.
Lyn Wineman (17:45):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
And then, you know, like beingCEO, that was again one thing.
And then, I had a kid andthen another kid, and this was
after my second child was born.
And you know, you just mom lifeis different things.
(18:06):
If you're not a mom, it's really hard to
understand.
Having been a mom and now agrandma, right?
Like I get to see my kids raisetheir kids, right?
Which is seriously the coolestthing ever.
But it's a it's a lot.
It's a lot.
Diane Temme Stinton (18:22):
It's so hard.
It's hard, you know.
And I'm thinking to myself,like after my second child was
bored, you know, I'm the CEO ofthis company, I'm a— I'm an
educated person, I'm highlyfunctional.
And I wasn't even, I didn'thave postpartum depression, I
didn't have complications.
I had a great support group.
I, you know, marriage will do,thank God. A lot of things,
(18:46):
like, are working in your favor.
And even then, I felt like Idon't know how I'm supposed to
do this.
And you go from like, oh,beautiful miracle life, to I'm a
terrible mom, like so quickly.
And what is overwhelming andfrustrating, and I'm thinking to
(19:08):
myself, too, like surelythere's a tool, surely there's
something out there.
So I started downloading likeevery you know, recipe food app
that I could find, and I justdidn't like the experience of
each.
And so, so then the first thingthat I did after I had this
idea was I started talking tosome friends.
(19:28):
Yeah, I reached out to was myfriend Jane Griffin.
We had lunch, it was at theScarlet.
This is a—
Lyn Wineman (19:34):
I love the Scarlet, by the way.
It's a great hotel on theUniversity of Nebraska's
innovation campus.
Diane Temme Stinton (19:41):
Yeah, yes, and that is a this is an
infamous date in the Anchovyhistory where—
Lyn Wineman (19:45):
I love it.
Diane Temme Stinton (19:47):
And I said, and Jane, Jane Griffin is the
most put together person that Iknow.
Just, oh my god, to be her.
And she's a mentor to me aswell.
And I sat down with Jane and Isaid, Jane, this is how I feel.
This is the problem.
Do you have this problem?
And she said, Yes.
(20:07):
Like, you know, when you thinkabout what are you gonna have
for dinner, like, oh.
Lyn Wineman (20:13):
Yeah, right?
Like, I've already had a hardfull day.
I'm gonna have two childrenrunning around under my feet.
I'm exhausted and I'm hungry,and they're hungry.
What are we gonna have fordinner?
And I and and I forgot to thawanything out, so I guess it's a
happy meal, which we all knowalso makes us feel like a
terrible parent to feed ourchildren happy meals.
(20:35):
Yes.
Diane Temme Stinton (20:37):
And my god, did we have chicken.
Like I'll go through.
But no, that's absolutelyright.
So I, you know, talking toJane, and you know, I said,
here's here are the problemsthat I see too, you know, like
just first you need to get allyour stuff in one space, and
then after that, you know, it'sjust that emotional energy of
(20:57):
trying to figure out what youwant to eat, and you know, how
can we also share in that?
So, for example, you know, likeyour grandkids, I guarantee
you, whatever they eat, my kidswill probably eat too.
Lyn Wineman (21:09):
Probably.
It feels like we're all doingthis in isolation.
And especially, I think youknow, anybody who is like, you
know, the chef of their familyis that it's a it's a big burden
that it's like they're justkind of bearing the load.
I don't talk to my friendsabout, so what do you make for
(21:32):
dinner?
What do your kids like to eat?
What do you, you know—
Right, right.
We don't share in that way andwe should because like I think
we're all kind of suffering insilence and we're all facing the
same problem.
So I thought, why don't wecreate a space that builds
community?
Like and share together foreveryone's path.
Yeah, yeah, I love that, right?
(21:52):
Like we share music, we shareratings on places we go,
restaurants.
Why not make community?
Around something that kind ofis difficult and stressful.
Diane Temme Stinton (22:05):
Yes.
And also, like, I mean, you canGoogle stuff online.
You can go to ChatGPT to find,you know, whatever recipes, most
popular recipes.
But at the same time, it'slike, you know, the— I'm much
more likely to, if you gave me arecipe and told me, screw by
this, this is so great.
Lyn Wineman (22:24):
Yeah, 100%.
Diane Temme Stinton (22:26):
Yes.
I would 1,000% trust you andtry that, right?
Right.
Because we have a personalrelationship.
Whereas, you know, like ifthere's like a rating system,
it's like 3,000 people ratedthis five stars.
Like, well, okay, I don't knowwhat that means.
Or some people leave reviewsonline, like this recipe is
terrible.
It came out way too salty.
(22:47):
And it's like, did you measure?
Do you know how like it's veryobvious that like they didn't
really know whatthey were doing.
Yeah.
But like why we, you know, and I think
regionally too, you know, likewe eat similar foods, I think,
like whether it's based onheritage or ingredients,
seasonalities, and other things.
So, you know, I think thatthere's definitely ways that we
(23:10):
can like come together.
Lyn Wineman (23:12):
Yeah, you know, Diane, what I love about this is
in one of your earliercomments, I wrote down these
words about the importance ofthe people who see you.
And when I think of what you'redoing with Anchovy, I feel like
you are seeing a whole sectionof busy working parents, right?
(23:35):
Who have this stress and you'repulling the community
together.
And so I love it when thingscome full circle, and I really
like that.
But I gotta ask you the— here'sthe question in my mind how'd
you come up with the name?
Being a branding person, I lovethe name anchovy, it's so cute,
(23:55):
right?
But I don't know anybody whoeats anchovies personally, but
it's super cute as a name.
Diane Temme Stinton (24:02):
Well, I like anchovy because it is a
little community fish, it's nota solo swimmer.
Like it swims together withother fish, so there's that.
We were trying to be so cleverwith it.
Yeah.
We're trying to do like, youknow, you know, food community,
food fan.
Lyn Wineman (24:22):
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (24:23):
Sugar, feed something, plate, whatever, but
like coming up with an originalname in this day and age, and
then you have to also like doesit sound like an existing
company?
Lyn Wineman (24:33):
Right, right.
Can you get a URL?
Can you get a math name, right?
Like all the things, yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (24:38):
All the things.
And so then we were just likespinning in circles.
Like, I don't know.
And then I was driving in mycar going down K Street, like—
Lyn Wineman (24:51):
I was just on K Street earlier today. I know,
yes.
I know exactly where I wasagain when this thought occurred
to me, but I was thinking aboutthe button app, which is now
no more mint.
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (25:04):
And I thought mint, like it's money
related, yeah.
So one word kind of catchy, andI thought maybe we're trying
too hard.
It's so—
Lyn Wineman (25:17):
Yeah, right?
I was thinking to myself,Anchovy, and so then that's
kind of where it started.
It's like anchovy, and I startthinking about anchovies, and
then I pitched it to Jane andJane Griffin, who is now my
senior project manager.
I love this.
I don't know Jane, but I feellike I want to know Jane.
(25:40):
You should.
She sounds amazing.
Diane Temme Stinton (25:42):
Yeah, oh, and you need her recipes, like—
Lyn Wineman (25:45):
Okay.
I'm joining the app as soon aswe're done to look for Jane's
recipes.
Diane Temme Stinton (25:51):
Yeah, so Anchovy.
So one, so I told her likeAnchovy and her reaction.
I know we're not doing video,but I just should—
Lyn Wineman (26:02):
It was, okay, she grimaced, she didn't instantly
jump onto it, right?
Diane Temme Stinton (26:07):
Oh no, she thought that it she thought it
was terrible. But it's grown oneverybody, and there's a couple
of things like—
Lyn Wineman (26:15):
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (26:16):
There's a repellent quality to anchovy.
Lyn Wineman (26:19):
Right.
There's a repellent quality todinner, there's repellent
quality to the grime, there's arepellent quality, like anchovy
is the you know.
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (26:31):
But here's the deal too like if you are a
serious chef, you will know thatyou know the secret to Caesar
salad is anchovy.
It's a savory, it's a veryeyebrow ingredient that a lot
of people use in very, verysophisticated cooking and
(26:52):
cuisine.
Lyn Wineman (26:52):
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (26:53):
And so, you know, I thought how
interesting, like because itapplies in like a lot of
different contexts that youknow, and it's also a very
pretty original name.
Lyn Wineman (27:04):
Yeah, I love it so much.
Honestly, I think I did notknow anything about anchovies as
animals, but the fact thatthey're community fish, I love
that.
And I think the repellentfactor also, like to me, when I
think of the app Anchovy, I kindof you kind of the question in
(27:26):
the back of your head is like,Will I like this recipe?
Will my kids like this recipe?
You know, and I think theanchovy thing kind of very
subconsciously brings up thatpoint in the back of your mind
too.
And it's just cute and fun tosay.
Like, I think when you namesomething, giving it something
that's cute and fun to say, Ithink has a cool aspect to it
(27:48):
too.
Diane Temme Stinton (27:50):
And also, you know, like so we have like a
little yearbook, and it wejust got an ocean book from
Barnes and Noble, and we're likewe kind of sign it as we get
new employees.
And on the cover of it, I wrotemy little introview motto,
which is, "Little fish, bigdreams." And so, and also like
in the app space, if you'redoing a con— a mass consumer
(28:12):
product, let me tell you, like,it is insane.
Like, nobody should do it.
It's like craziness, it's—
Lyn Wineman (28:22):
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (28:23):
Impossible.
It's—
Lyn Wineman (28:25):
Right.
Diane Temme Stinton (28:25):
It's very hard.
It's hard to get people'sattention, it's hard to get them
time and energy to try a newthing, and so you know it's but
I don't know, like the big dreamis to become the first
worldwide food app.
Lyn Wineman (28:40):
I love it so much.
All right, everybody who'slistening, you can help Diane
fulfill her dream, download theapp, try out the recipes.
I— She didn't know I was gonnasay that, but I'm—
Diane Temme Stinton (28:52):
It's on Google Play and Apple Store. It
is free to use.
Lyn Wineman (28:57):
I love it.
Diane Temme Stinton (28:57):
And we are doing a fundraiser right now
in partnership with KETV Omahaof the food bank for the
Heartland, and so Julie Cornell,who's an anchor on KETV.
Lyn Wineman (29:14):
I love Julie Cornell.
I love Julie Cornell in this.
She is a big Anchovy fan, notthe food.
I love it.
Diane Temme Stinton (29:24):
And so she has a cookbook of her favorite
recipes that is available forsale, 19.99, and all that
benefit will go towards the foodbank.
Lyn Wineman (29:36):
Oh, what a great cause! See, I love that how
you're tying together business,community, giving back.
And actually, I've been wantingto ask you this, right?
Because Diane, you are runninga manufacturing company, you're
the founder of an app, you arethe mother of small children who
are kind of in that mostdifficult phase, I'm gonna say.
(29:58):
I think that three to fivephase, that's not easy.
Like you have to be a childpsychologist on top of
everything else.
Instead of asking you how youdo it, I want to ask you how do
each of those things inform theother, right?
Like, how does the— you likepuzzles, how does the Diane
Temme Stinton puzzle kind ofwork together there?
Diane Temme Stinton (30:21):
Oh man.
The mom and wife piece goesover everything else.
Lyn Wineman (30:30):
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (30:31):
So—
Lyn Wineman (30:31):
Amazing.
Diane Temme Stinton (30:33):
My family is the most important thing to
me.
My kids, setting my kids up tobe hopefully productive and
successful humans.
Lyn Wineman (30:41):
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (30:42):
And so, you know, the that's the the
overlaying consideration.
So doing Anchovy, you know, I'mdoing this, you know, as a busy
mom, trying to create toolsthat enable me to be not only a
better mom, but then a betterCEO because I'm spending less
time on the things that likedon't matter.
Lyn Wineman (31:04):
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (31:05):
Claim it for the things that do.
Lyn Wineman (31:07):
I love that.
That's amazing.
That's amazing.
So what's next for you, Diane?
What are you looking forwardto?
Diane Temme Stinton (31:14):
Oh man, it's like we talked about at the
beginning, right?
So, like kind of North Startype stuff.
We are looking forward to abrand refresh with Anchovy.
So like you have to get the upnow, so then you can like—
Lyn Wineman (31:28):
Okay.
Diane Temme Stinton (31:30):
Hit the refresh.
And—
Lyn Wineman (31:31):
I love it.
Diane Temme Stinton (31:32):
A fun experience.
I'm looking forward to on theAnchovy side, I'm looking
forward to supporting more smallbusinesses.
So, you know, we have a lot ofpeople in our community who are
like literally invisible to thenaked eye.
So, for example, there arepeople who are baking out of
their homes.
They have a cottage foodlicense, they're trying to
(31:53):
create a business, they maybewant a storefront, but you know,
they need to try to build acustomer base, Right.
You know, people who are alsomaybe running restaurants, it's
a different way to maybe engagewith people and also add like
maybe a different revenue streamwhere we're looking forward to
working with other nonprofitsfor fundraisers on the Anchovy.
(32:14):
And then we're also lookingforward to supporting our
culinary institutions.
And so we just have a lot ofthings going on.
I'm really, really excited tosee kind of where that all takes
us.
On the TMCO side, I'm justreally excited about, you know,
in manufacturing, you kind ofhave to roll with a lot of
(32:35):
punches.
And we're getting
Lyn Wineman (32:36):
Yeah. Oh, it has been an interesting year, I'm
guessing, right?
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (32:40):
Yeah, let's not talk about the T-word. But
no, it feels like we've gottenkind of, you know, you've gotten
punched, and you know, you haveto pivot and you have to roll
and you have to, you know,there's always new opportunities
though.
And so I'm just really excitedabout just again, like keeping
(33:02):
our minds open foropportunities.
And I feel like again, lookingback to my background, you know,
that just really allows you tothink creatively.
I think my superpower is thatlike the obvious solution is
never my solution.
I just live outside the box.
I'm not an in-the-box kind ofperson.
Lyn Wineman (33:21):
I love it, I love it.
Diane Temme Stinton (33:22):
Yeah, so that's what I'm looking forward
to.
And again, because I'm not agoal setter, I can't tell you
what my goal is, but I can tellyou that I feel like you know
the sky's the limit.
Lyn Wineman (33:33):
Your eyes are open to the opportunities.
I love it.
Diane, for people who arelistening that want to find out
more, let's start with how canthey get on to Anchovy?
I'm imagining we just go to theapp store and search for
Anchovy.
Diane Temme Stinton (33:48):
Absolutely.
So Google Play, Apple Store.
But for more information aboutthe website, you could also find
us at www.anchovy.
Lyn Wineman (33:57):
I love it.
I also love that you got thatURL that's easy for people to
find.
So good for you.
And TMCO, how do we find outmore about TMCO?
Diane Temme Stinton (34:07):
Absolutely.
So www.tmclinc.com,tmcoinc.com.
Lyn Wineman (34:14):
Got it.
All right.
We'll make sure to get both ofthose, Diane, into the show
notes.
I want to ask you one morequestion before I'm gonna ask
you our standard agency forchange question that everyone's
answered.
Diane, I'm really curious.
I think I've got a feel for alot of your answers today, but I
want to ask you this question.
What do you care about, Diane?
(34:36):
Oh wow.
You know, I care about justbeing a force for good.
Care about being a force forgood.
I care about, you know, likethere's such a stigma about like
industry.
I mean, there are companiesthat make other companies look
(34:59):
real bad, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (35:01):
But I do want people to know that like
there are a lot of ethicalcompanies, there are a lot of
companies who care, who careabout communities, and also
technology.
There are a lot of bad actorsin technology.
Lyn Wineman (35:14):
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (35:15):
You know, like in a global level, right?
Like we see, you know, the theZuckerbergs and the Bezos's.
And I think, you know, you kindof get looped into kind of the,
you know, there's some sketchythings in like big tech.
Lyn Wineman (35:32):
Yeah.
Diane Temme Stinton (35:33):
So I just have this vision that, you know,
we can do so much good.
And I know there's others outthere who feel the same way, but
I just feel like, you know,good, you know, good companies
just have to continue to have apresence and that the public
can't just lose hope that, youknow, everybody's corrupt and
(35:54):
everybody's just out for money.
Like we, there are good peopleout there.
Lyn Wineman (35:58):
A hundred percent.
Diane, I feel that's why I feellucky to be located in Lincoln,
Nebraska.
I feel like this is theepicenter of companies doing
good, doing the right thing.
So thank you for thank you forletting me ask you that question
and and thank you for sharing.
All right, the next question, Itold you we're we're getting
(36:18):
close to our 300th episode, andI've asked this question on
every episode.
And I am actually a collectorof quotes, right?
I love quotes, and I like to gointo my quote vault for
different things.
Actually, if you could see myoffice, I have quotes all around
me.
I would like a Diane TemmeStinton original quote to share
(36:41):
with our listeners.
Diane Temme Stinton (36:42):
Okay, I'm going to derive it from
something that somebody said tome that I felt like a
compliment.
And it was this, "Somebody hasto swing for the fences."
Somebody has to swing for thefences.
And, you know, I think that inour lives, you know, like we
spend a lot of our time justtrying to get on first or trying
(37:05):
to, you know, like, and youknow, obviously, I think from
our conversation, no surprisethat I'm a
very go-big-or-go-home type.
Lyn Wineman (37:13):
Yeah, right.
I'm learning that about as ifI suspected it, but you have
yes, you have confirmed mysuspicions.
Diane Temme Stinton (37:22):
Yeah. When you think about that, you know,
well, somebody has to swing forthe fences.
Well, why not you?
Lyn Wineman (37:28):
Right.
Diane Temme Stinton (37:29):
That's my challenge, you know, to the
listenership today.
Like, why not you?
And why not us?
And why not here?
Swing for the fences.
Lyn Wineman (37:37):
I love it.
So inspiring.
That is A+ on that assignment.
Diane Temme Stinton (37:42):
I don't even like baseball.
I'd be pulled us close sure.
But I do like that metaphor.
I hear you, I hear you.
All right, Diane, I have lovedthis conversation so much.
And as we wrap up our timetogether today, I'd like to ask
you what's the of all the thingswe've talked about, you've
covered the things you careabout, the things you dream
(38:04):
about, what is the mostimportant thing you'd like our
listeners to remember about thework that you're doing?
You know, I think in ourcommunity of Lincoln, you know,
where we share similar passions,where we share similar
missions.
Like, please connect.
Please connect others, pleaseconnect with me, because we can
(38:26):
just do more when we worktogether.
Lyn Wineman (38:28):
Yeah, I love that so much.
Diane, it has been such apleasure to talk with you.
I fully believe the world needsmore people like you, more
organizations like TMCO, moreapps like Anchovy.
Thank you for taking time outto talk with us today.
Thank you so much.
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