story copy

Author: devandapaige

src/app/about/page.tsx

@@ -19,8 +19,11 @@ const norwester = localFont({
 
 export const metadata: Metadata = {
   metadataBase: new URL('https://pythonessprogrammer.com'),
-  title: "Pythoness Programmer | Tech Coaching & Reflection Sessions",
-  description: "I philosophize with other decolonizing neurodivergents about how our tech struggles reveal what we've internalized and what our brains actually need. Reflection sessions, not rescue—pattern recognition and brain-friendly clarity.",
+  title: {
+    default: "Pythoness Programmer | Tech That Works, for People Like Us",
+    template: "%s | Pythoness Programmer",
+  },
+  description: "Reflection sessions, not rescue. I sit with neurodivergent creatives and small business owners in the aftermath of tech hurdles and ask: What is this struggle trying to teach you? Tarot-guided insight, pattern recognition, and brain-friendly clarity—so you don't make it a third time.",
   keywords: [
     "Tech Coaching",
     "Software Psychic",
@@ -37,13 +40,15 @@ export const metadata: Metadata = {
     "Reflection sessions",
     "Digital Fluency",
     "Amanda Nelson",
-    "Pythoness Programmer"
+    "Pythoness Programmer",
+    "late-identified neurodivergent",
+    "tech clarity"
   ],
   authors: [{ name: "Amanda Nelson" }],
   creator: "Pythoness Programmer",
   openGraph: {
-    title: "Pythoness Programmer | Tech Coaching & Reflection Sessions",
-    description: "I philosophize with other decolonizing neurodivergents about how our tech struggles reveal what we've internalized and what our brains actually need. Reflection sessions, not rescue—pattern recognition and brain-friendly clarity.",
+    title: "Pythoness Programmer | Tech That Works, for People Like Us",
+    description: "Reflection sessions, not rescue. Tarot-guided reflection and pattern recognition for neurodivergent creatives and small business owners—so you don't make it a third time.",
     type: "website",
     url: '/',
     siteName: 'Pythoness Programmer',

src/app/layout.tsx

@@ -9,25 +9,27 @@ export interface Button {
 interface HeroCardProps {
   title?: string;
   mainText?: string;
+  paragraphs?: string[];
   buttons?: Button[];
 }
 
 export default function HeroCard({
   title = "Tech That Works, for People Like Us",
-  mainText = "I philosophize with other decolonizing neurodivergents about how our tech struggles reveal what we've internalized and what our brains actually need. I'm not here to rescue you from tech emergencies—I'm here to sit with you in the aftermath and ask: What is this struggle trying to teach you?",
+  mainText,
+  paragraphs,
   buttons = [
-    {
-      text: "Book a 20-Min Session",
-      href: "https://cal.com/pythoness/20min",
-      primary: true
-    },
-    {
-      text: "View Services",
-      href: "/services",
-      primary: false
-    }
+    { text: "Book a Session", href: "https://cal.com/pythoness/20min", primary: true },
+    { text: "See All Services", href: "/services", primary: false },
+    { text: "Browse Free Resources", href: "/resources", primary: false }
   ]
 }: HeroCardProps) {
+  const defaultParagraphs = [
+    "For most of my life, I thought I was bad at systems. Turns out the systems were bad for my brain.",
+    "I'm Amanda — the Pythoness Programmer. I'm a late-identified neurodivergent, a Senior Software Engineer with 15+ years across communications, systems, and code, and someone who learned everything I now teach the hard way: in the middle of a pandemic bootcamp, a first engineering job, a new diagnosis, and a body that had been asking me to slow down for years before I finally listened.",
+    "I didn't find clarity through a productivity system. I found it through community, through decolonizing frameworks, through other neurodivergent people naming the patterns I'd been blaming on myself my whole life.",
+    "That's what I offer now. Not rescue. Reflection."
+  ]
+  const lines = paragraphs ?? (mainText ? [mainText] : defaultParagraphs)
   return (
     <div className="bg-gradient-to-b from-brand-green-dark to-brand-green-dark text-white py-12 relative overflow-hidden">
       {/* Enhanced background patterns with multiple layers */}
@@ -49,8 +51,13 @@ export default function HeroCard({
 
           {/* Main content with staggered animation */}
           <div className="space-y-6 animate-fade-in-up animation-delay-150">
-            <p className="text-xl md:text-2xl mb-10 max-w-3xl mx-auto text-white font-light leading-relaxed">
-              {mainText}
+            {lines.map((para, i) => (
+              <p key={i} className="text-xl md:text-2xl max-w-3xl mx-auto text-white font-light leading-relaxed">
+                {para}
+              </p>
+            ))}
+            <p className="text-xl md:text-2xl max-w-3xl mx-auto text-brand-green-accent font-semibold leading-relaxed">
+              Reflection sessions, not rescue.
             </p>
           </div>