
Amber Smith
Amber Smith is a Des Moines-based secondhand fashion reseller and thrifting/travel/lifestyle content creator (@amberwavesofbrain) who left corporate to run her reselling business full time.
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Sep 12, 2026
CampFI Midwest 2026: How In-Person Community Fuels Financial Independence and Life Changes | Episode 069
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Amber SmithGUEST
In college, I was a business and economics major and I needed an internship and I got this financial planning internship and they let me look at real people's financial plans.

Amber SmithGUEST
And the kinds of people that typically would go to these financial advisors, they either didn't have very much money and the plan would say you need to work until you're 85 and then heavily rely on social security and like hope you don't live too long.
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17:12Jordan GrumetHOST
Amber, you had stuck with the reading, right? If you had gone down the rabbit hole of the blogs but never shown up either to a local get-together or come to something like a campfire, how do you think it would have been different? Like, what did coming to these things and meeting the people in person change?
