Bachmeyer Press

Bachmeyer Press You have a story. Let's tell it. Storytelling and Film in Cincinnati, OH

Hello! Dropping my 1990s self in feeds today to remind us: - arrested development was a band before it was a tv show - s...
05/14/2025

Hello! Dropping my 1990s self in feeds today to remind us:
- arrested development was a band before it was a tv show

- superman is still a legitimately good ice cream choice

- lasting joy is found outside with skinned knees

- we grow up and forget to dream and think too much about scheduling logistics and meal planning --- 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

but inside:
peace is always accessible,
our dreams are never gone,
and our thoughts can always wander,
we just need to stop trying so hard to get there.
☮️

Amazing to see our storytelling come to life! We partnered with to share stories of their law students, showcasing the ...
05/02/2023

Amazing to see our storytelling come to life! We partnered with to share stories of their law students, showcasing the diversity and caliber of their students (check out some of the stories out at our link in bio!).

It has been so gratifying to meet these law students and hear about the impact they plan to make on the world. TBH - I have so much newfound respect for the legal profession after meeting these wonders!!!

Hopefully with every new story, we are helping draw more and more students like these to the halls of UC Law.

Shout out to the dream team - 📸 , and all the students, faculty, admin, and the marketing dept at UC Law that prioritize storytelling as part of their ultimate marketing vision and campus culture.

My first love is & *always will be* travel. At the Detroit airport today and remembering why. It's the practice I get fo...
12/15/2022

My first love is & *always will be* travel. At the Detroit airport today and remembering why.

It's the practice I get following impulses. Not planning. Where will this subway exit take me? Stepping off. Wandering.

On an impulse walk during a long layover and stopped to peruse a buy two get one free bookshelf in an overpriced airport market.

2 books? Make it 3.

Uproot and go where your heart is calling? Be alive.

Support my 💝 through med school by running a business while raising three girls? Be free.

Wake each day living in the dream you made? This is what awake can feel like.

Is this the end? We're still here together.

Homage to all the places I've been, and the impulses that led me there:
Spain > Italy > Asheville > Alaska > Bulgaria > Montenegro > NYC > Romania > England > Denver > Turkey > Croatia > Macedonia > Dallas > Seattle > Vancouver > Albania > Greece > Korea > Japan > Yellowstone > Adirondacks > UP > Maine > ?

💝 thank you for the poetry, soundtrack for the moment
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Neverrr felt more hyyge in my whole life than I do in this new office space. Hygge: Danish and Norwegian word that desc...
12/02/2022

Neverrr felt more hyyge in my whole life than I do in this new office space.
Hygge: Danish and Norwegian word that describes a mood of coziness and "comfortable conviviality" with feelings of wellness and contentment.

Opinions (especially from someone else) get us all walled up. The place beneath opinion / belief / conviction / culture ...
12/31/2021

Opinions (especially from someone else) get us all walled up. The place beneath opinion / belief / conviction / culture is where I like to explore. Inside those depths, life stories are revealed, and that is where we all can meet.

Wishing everyone more flow, patience, and persistence in 2022. Let's wear away the stone together.
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"Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does."

- Margaret Atwood

Another day storytelling on set - cinematic goodness by
11/06/2021

Another day storytelling on set - cinematic goodness by

09/16/2021

On the last day of filming her story, Zamira told me things were not looking so good back home. One week later, the Taliban took over Afghanistan. And like that, Zamira began her third and final year as a law student.

All I keep thinking, and one of the messages I hope Zamira's story sends, is that no matter what others try to take from us --the human spirit is intractable. What will live long past the evil deeds of men is our belief that we can make an impact. Zamira has taught me that the next thing will always come, but with it will also come the next thing needed to inch us closer to our goal of peace, freedom, love. It is only our job to listen to our spirit.

So grateful to The University of Cincinnati College of Law for this chance to meet up and coming lawyers like Zamira, and the respect and support they show their students.

🌀 Listening to someone's story actually gives us the superhuman capacity to *feel* what another person is feeling.Even i...
08/24/2021

🌀 Listening to someone's story actually gives us the superhuman capacity to *feel* what another person is feeling.

Even if it's as mundane as what they ate for breakfast, listening to someone tell a story will literally light up the same exact parts of our brain and nervous system that light up in the storyteller.

What's that you say???

Yes. Stories = magical!

What I'm describing here is this beautiful and surreal phenomenon driven by things scientists call mirror neurons. Or Buddhists call inter-being.

So, stories are felt experiences. We all know this!

When making a film, I like to consider how I want the audience to feel. Invariably, I think it needs to be positive. But as a friend recently reminded me, all feelings are valid and worth sharing. And in fact, people like stories with conflict. Especially if that conflict is then overcome.

What would the world be if we only told happy stories?

In my practice of meditation, I have come to understand that no feeling is "better"/"worse" than the other. Anger is a good example. Often anger is said to be "bad." We discipline our kids out of anger. But anger doesn't like to be told it's bad. Judgement of our feelings can only exacerbate or make us cling to them more. But when we see our feelings like anger as a friend, a messenger, our relationship to them changes. From that space of non-judgement, we can explore the feeling. We can hear what it's trying to say.

I take this practice of non-judgement wherever I go in the story space. It helps me to listen deeply without my own thoughts getting in the way.

One caveat: being a storyteller doesn't mean I let myself cry with people. Even if I might cry telling their story later on. When listening, there is the boundary that their story, while felt by me, is not my own. It's about honoring and creating a safe, resonant space for them to share.

So, when you share your story, do you notice your feelings as they rise? Do you judge the story as "good" or "bad" based on how it makes you feel? Who do you have in your life that offers you a space for resonance?

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08/23/2021

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Yes! This is it *exactly.* ^^The reason for the duress and panic that brought me to starting a business wasn't one thing...
07/01/2021

Yes! This is it *exactly.* ^^

The reason for the duress and panic that brought me to starting a business wasn't one thing, or a few things. It was the culmination of everything: a baby on the way, a newly one-income household, a mortgage and a minivan, the both reasonable and unreasonable confines of being someone's employee, the itch to keep after my life's purpose, a deep and profound shift in understanding who I am, the hope of carrying on my family's legacy of entrepreneurship for my 3 young girls to see.

So it was this: a pressure cooker of life changing circumstances and purpose-driven factors, being met with what so many of us who have lived years on this planet come to possess: fireclay - that birthed my company, Bachmeyer Press.

The work is curvy and windy. It's more work this day and less that day. It's deciding what to do, and not always *doing* for a work week and a salary. It's slowly evolving.

The work is my own. It's also largely collaborative. It depends on a bunch of good people who like what I offer, and so far some super gratifying serendipity. And for now, I get to wake up knowing that I am telling stories that celebrate all kinds of transformation happening in our schools, churches, disability agencies, and neighborhoods. Founded on my values, grown out of my life's work, and designed with my family at the center, I frequently call gratitude to the pressure that led to this new carved path.

Thank you for this, Claire. Keep telling the story of women entrepreneurs!

A friend recently said to me: "The revolution will start with our feelings." It's hard to do our own work. To explore wh...
06/04/2021

A friend recently said to me: "The revolution will start with our feelings."

It's hard to do our own work. To explore what's really happening inside, moment to moment.

But I've learned that the alternative means to suffer the loss of self, the loss of voice, the loss of intuition.

When we can tap into what it is that we are feeling without forcing it away, we are wise.

From that wise space, our actions automatically become more skillful. And when we are both wise and skillful with our moments here on Earth, the revolution really can begin.

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