Episode 1 -- Amber Frankhuizen

Amber Frankhuizen ('09, marketing) is the Founder/CEO and Chief Strategist of award-winning marketing agency AFMKTG, a company she started from an ironing board because she didn't have a desk yet. Recently named a Rising Aztec, she's mentored dozens of SDSU students in SDSU’s Aztec Mentorship Program both personally and through her company’s internship program.Amber reflects on her college experience, shares the story of leaving a successful job to start her own marketing company, how she decides which brands become clients, gives advice to students on getting an internship at her company, educates Josh about using the right fonts on a résumé, and much more.To learn more about Amber, visit her company's website: https://afmktg.com/Or connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amberfrankhuizen/"Where Ya At?" is a podcast focused on the School of Journalism and Media Studies at San Diego State University. Each week, during the Fall and Spring semesters, host Josh Suchon (Class of 1996) interviews alumni to learn about their experiences as college students, entering the workforce, key steps in their professional development, advice they'd give to current students, and details about how they covered a specific story.