diff --git a/src/app/about/page.tsx b/src/app/about/page.tsx
index d8a5a62..41ce0c9 100644
--- a/src/app/about/page.tsx
+++ b/src/app/about/page.tsx
@@ -71,7 +71,10 @@ export default function AboutPage() {
               I'd been living with fibromyalgia since 2016 and chronic migraines since the same year. In 2018 I was bedbound for nine months. My body had been telling me something for years. I was only beginning to learn how to listen.
             </p>
             <p>
-              Being a new software engineer while also being a newly-diagnosed neurodivergent person with a chronic illness, no direct manager, and no roadmap — that&apos;s not a gap year story. That&apos;s just what it was. Hard. Clarifying. Mine.
+              Being a new software engineer while also being a newly-diagnosed neurodivergent person with a chronic illness in a brand-new corporate environment at Zappos, during its post-holacracy transition into full Amazon ownership, wasn&apos;t a gap-year story. That&apos;s just what it was. Hard. Clarifying. Mine.
+            </p>
+            <p>
+              Then I was laid off in January 2023. That moment hurt, and it also forced a reckoning: I could see how much people-pleasing had shaped the way I worked, while emotional sustainability was treated as optional. That layoff became the turning point that pushed me into the deep end of building what Pythoness Programmer is becoming.
             </p>
             <p>
               What helped wasn&apos;t a system. It was people. A TikTok community of late-identified and lifelong neurodivergent adults who were naming patterns I&apos;d been carrying alone. Marginalized voices who had been talking for years about how our systems — tech systems, productivity systems, social systems — were built to serve a particular kind of brain and body, and how everyone else was just expected to adapt.
diff --git a/src/components/Footer.tsx b/src/components/Footer.tsx
index 00e8e65..5a609e6 100644
--- a/src/components/Footer.tsx
+++ b/src/components/Footer.tsx
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ export default function Footer() {
             <ul className="space-y-1">
               <li><Link href="/about" className={footerLinkClass}>About</Link></li>
               <li><Link href="/resources" className={footerLinkClass}>Resources</Link></li>
+              <li><Link href="https://luma.com/pythoness" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" className={footerLinkClass}>Events</Link></li>
               <li><Link href="https://stickyspells.etsy.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" className={`${footerLinkClass} font-medium`}>Shop - Sticky Spells</Link></li>
             </ul>
           </FooterSection>
@@ -79,7 +80,6 @@ export default function Footer() {
             <ul className="space-y-1">
               <li><Link href="/privacy-policy" className={footerLinkClass}>Privacy Policy</Link></li>
               <li><Link href="/terms" className={footerLinkClass}>Terms of Service</Link></li>
-              <li><span className="text-white/60 text-sm">Based in New Kent, Virginia crafting remote, digital services since 2018</span></li>
             </ul>
           </FooterSection>
           <FooterSection title="Support">