🪄Magically Thriving Business💸: Disruptive Tech, Tools I've Used, and Lucid Dreaming for Entrepreneurs 2-Feb-2025
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DeepSeek's Disruptive Emergence
Additional AI Tools You Can Use
Ophelia’s Corner: Who Gave You That Dream? And Do You Even Want It?
Ophelia’s Magical Round Up
More From Me & Others - hyperlinks to additional content
DeepSeek's Disruptive Emergence
1 Minute Run Down of What You Need to Know
AI has been big news this week - bigger than usual - because Chinese startup DeepSeek unveiled an AI model that rivals leading U.S. technologies but operates with significantly fewer resources. This development led to a substantial decline in U.S. tech stocks, with Nvidia's valuation dropping by nearly $600 billion. The emergence of DeepSeek's cost-effective AI solutions has raised concerns about the future of U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence.
DeepSeek is an emerging AI platform that offers advanced capabilities tailored to meet the needs of small business owners. One of its standout features is the ability to install and run the DeepSeek-R1 model locally on your own hardware. This local deployment ensures that all data processing occurs within your own systems, providing enhanced privacy and security by eliminating the need to share sensitive information with external servers or third-party entities.
For small businesses, this means you can leverage DeepSeek's AI tools to automate routine tasks, gain data-driven insights, and improve decision-making processes without compromising on data confidentiality. By processing data locally, you maintain full control over your information, reducing the risk of data breaches and ensuring compliance with data protection regulations.
Additionally, running DeepSeek-R1 locally can lead to faster response times and allows for seamless integration into your existing workflows, all while keeping operational costs low. This setup offers a powerful solution for AI integration, providing privacy, speed, and control over your applications.
In summary, DeepSeek provides small business owners with a cost-effective and secure AI solution that enhances operational efficiency without compromising data privacy.
-Cheryl, Head Business Witch
Additional AI Resources
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🎥The Easiest Way to Scale a Personalized Marketing Campaign With AI
AI Tools I've Personally Used and Recommend
Language Models
Image Generators
Video & Meetings
Zoom - turn on AI meeting summary & video transcripts. You can send the AI meeting summary to meeting attendees to cut down on follow up time. You can feed the transcripts into AI to generate (depending on the topic of the meeting) to do lists, workflows, project plans, social media content, articles, brainstorm ideas and more.
Otter Ai - take meeting notes in any Zoom call, not just your own account
Alwrite - convert videos to articles
Other
🪄Business Books
Pitching with Fire: How a Dragon Mastered the Art of the Pitch (and you can too!) Paper - Kindle
The Power of Persuasion: 100+ CTAs That Convert: Learn How to Craft Calls to Action to Super Charge Your Marketing Paper - Kindle
69 Hook-Ups: Starters to Grab Attention and Reel In Audiences Paper - Kindle
Ophelia's 🌈 Corner: Who Gave You That Dream? And Do You Even Want It?
You know what friends? I can't stop thinking about what Cheryl’s been saying about the American Dream State and Fitting Out - they're a bit like lucid dreaming - I know! Stick with me...
When I first started Ophelia’s Bazaar, I was terrified to break the rules I thought existed about “how business works.” I thought I had to look serious, sound polished, and act like the big, stuffy dragons running billion-dollar empires. I dreamed of being a big, stuffy dragon running a billion-dollar empire.
But guess what? Trying to create a business like that…It was like living in one of those weird, nonsensical nightmares where you think you’re awake but everything feels just a little...off? Like when you dream that pepper spray is hovering 30 feet in the air, ready to bonk you on the head the second you step outside instead of being afraid of being sprayed with it. (True story—still trying to decode that one. Maybe I have control issues? Or gravity issues?)
But here’s the thing about dreams: sometimes, you realize you’re dreaming. And in that glorious, sparkling moment, you get to decide what happens next.
That’s called lucid dreaming, my friends. And it’s not just for when you’re snoozing—it’s for real life too.
I think a lot of us have been stumbling around in this hazy, sleep-paralysis-like trance of chasing dreams that someone else told us we should want. The dream of "success" that comes prepackaged with 12-hour workdays, soul-crushing to-do lists, and just enough illusion of freedom to keep you scrambling for more.
But you know what? The minute you realize you’re in someone else’s dream, you can decide to wake up.
Or better yet, you can turn it into your dream.
You get to be the dragon in control, rewriting the script mid-snooze.
So I decided to go full lucid dreamer on my business. Now, my world is all glitter, chaos, snarky comments, and enchanted stickers. I embraced the fact that I was not and would never be a big, stuffy dragon. I realized that I'd never enjoy being that sort of dragon, or running that sort of business. This acceptance was the first step to Fitting Out and creating my own space. and you know what? People love it. I have over 8,000 followers on BlueSky!
So here’s my challenge for you this week: What dream are you stuck in that isn’t really yours? And if you could rewrite it—make it shinier, sparklier, or maybe even less sparkly (but seriously, who doesn’t love sparkles?)—what would it look like?
Lucid dreaming isn’t just about waking up. It’s about realizing that you, yes YOU, get to be the author of your story, the dreamer of your dream, the author of your very own rune-chasing adventures. 🌈✨
We don’t have to chase the dreams someone else told us to want. We get to dream our own dreams, even if they look like glitter-covered chaos instead of a picket fence and 2.5 kids.
Sprinkling a little dream dust your way,
Ophelia 🌙
I'm gone, Poof like fairy dust in the wind 💨
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P.S. If you need a nudge to rewrite your dream, come visit me on BlueSky. I promise, no floating pepper spray—just lots of sparkles and inspiration! ✨
Ophelia's🌈Magical Round Up
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The Witch's Secret: A Sleuth Sisters Mystery - this one is going on my reading list! Who doesn't love a good mystery?
Spooky Girl Spiderweb Reflective Glowy Mary Janes - in Ophelia sizes?!? Oh I'm in love!! I'm saving my treasures to buy these!
Do you vibrate on the sparkling wavelength of dragon-awesomeness? Want to show off your enchanted brillance in my Magical Round Up? Take flight with me!
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