Nina Sossamon-Pogue: Motivational Speaker
Quick Facts:
- Highlights:
- Nina talks about creating success after change. recover quickly, learn – and ultimately grow stronger.
- Audiences leave understanding their role in their own success and the corporations’ success with new strategies to keep going and not just survive change but thrive and find new levels of success.
- Nina is a hyper-growth tech executive, USA Gymnast, and Emmy-winning television news anchor and keynote speaker- who expertly blends big data, current events and brain science research into an energetic multi-media stage performance.
- Travels from: Charleston, SC
- **Fee range: $10,001 - $20,000
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Keynote Topics:
Keynote 1: You Got THIS
Taking On Life’s Challenges With Unapologetic Confidence.
A Session that delivers the Mindset, Motivation, and Tools to Navigate Today’s Unique Challenges.
Challenges are inevitable, but how we face them defines our success. In this powerful session, Nina unpacks why obstacles feel overwhelming, how our brains instinctively resist discomfort, and what it takes to turn adversity into an advantage. Blending science, stoicism, and storytelling, she reframes challenges as a catalyst for growth rather than a roadblock.
Audience Takeaways:
- Understand the True Meaning of Resilience: Learn why how you get back up matters and how challenges shape your growth.
- Learn THIS Framework to Handle Adversity of All Sizes: A science-backed, actionable approach to navigating challenges like a pro.
- Discover the “Reverse Resume” Concept: Uncover the untold story of life’s challenges and setbacks; those transformative experiences beneath the surface that shape who you are and fuel your resilience.
- Develop Practical Skills for Stress & Motivation: Gain strategies to manage stress, stay motivated, and maintain perspective, even in uncertain times.
- Foster Collaboration: Walk away with insights to strengthen teamwork, build resilience, and confidently tackle your next challenge.
Keynote 2: You’re Wired for THIS!
Navigating Change Like a Pro
A Session that delivers the Mindset, Motivation, and Tools to Embrace Change with Confidence.
Change is constant, but our instinct to resist it holds us back. In this engaging and insightful session, Nina explores why change feels so difficult, how our brains and bodies react to uncertainty, and what we can do to rewire our response.
Through a mix of neuroscience, stoicism, and personal storytelling, she shifts the narrative, showing audiences how to embrace change as an opportunity instead of fearing it.
Audience Takeaways:
- Why Change Feels Hard – Understand the brain’s natural resistance to change and how to shift your perspective.
- The THIS Framework for Navigating Change – A science-backed, actionable approach to handling change like a pro.
- Resilience Redefined – Learn how to embrace change instead of fearing it, and develop a challenge-ready mindset.
- Practical Strategies for Stress & Uncertainty – Gain tools to manage stress, stay motivated, and remain flexible in the face of change.
- Stronger Together – Discover insights to foster teamwork, collaboration, and confidence during times of transition.
Keynote 3: Resilience for High Achievers
The Secret to Sustained Success
Empowering Top Performers to Keep Leveling Up in a World That Never Slows Down
High achievers thrive on success, but the relentless pressure to perform can lead to burnout. In this eye-opening session, Nina introduces Excellence Exhaustion, a condition where the unending drive to surpass previous achievements, coupled with perpetual demands, leads to diminished productivity and well-being. Success isn’t just about pushing harder, it’s about building resilience, making this session essential for leaders, executives, and driven professionals striving for peak performance without burnout.
Audience Takeaways:
- Recognize “Excellence Exhaustion” – Understand the hidden toll of nonstop achievement and learn how to prevent burnout.
- Unlock the Power of Your Reverse Resume – Reframe setbacks and challenges as essential milestones in your success story.
- Sustain Success Without Breaking Down – Gain Nina’s proven approach to navigating obstacles and staying in control.
- Boost Productivity & Team Culture – Foster an environment where high performance and well-being go hand in hand.
- Thrive Under Pressure – Develop a mindset and toolkit to tackle change with confidence, clarity, and resilience.
Read Full Bio
Nina Sossamon-Pogue is a sought-after Motivational Speaker dedicated to researching and sharing how we can all become more resilient and mentally healthy in this era of constant change, being fueled by new technology, massive amounts of new data and machine learning.
Nina was a hyper-growth tech executive (2007-2019, Benefitfocus), Emmy-winning television news anchor (1992-2007) and USA Gymnast (1982-1984).
Nina is the author of two best-selling books:
- This is Not the End: Strategies to Get You Through the Worst Chapters of Your Life. (2019 Morgan James Publishing) Offering a proven approach to get through devastating life events and empowering people to take control of their future.
- But I Want Both: The Working Mom’s Guide to Creating a Life She Loves. (revised and updated edition to be release Fall 2023) Offering a proven approach to working and parenting for high achieving individuals.
Nina Sossamon-Pogue is the host of the podcast – This Seriously Sucks: The Right Podcast When Life Goes Seriously Wrong. Offering a platform for sharing strategies and coping techniques for anyone going through a tough life event. Along with her own insights, It includes the ‘overcoming’ stories of successful people who are at least 10 years past their traumatic event.
Nina Sossamon-Pogue | Motivational Speaker
Nina Sossamon-Pogue enjoyed success at some of the highest levels of sport, television and corporate America. She also endured painful public failures, trauma and devastating life events, including an injury that ended her athletic career, a very public lay off from her TV job, and a devastating car accident that put her at the center of a story gripping the headlines and left her flirting with self-sabotaging and suicidal thoughts.
Often asked how she managed to rebuild and reach even higher levels of success throughout her life, she stepped away from her corporate job to develop a framework to help others. She creates content that helps people manage through tough times, reframe change, strengthen their resilience and emerged even stronger.
Nina brings a wealth of experience and passion to everything she does. Her energy and passion to help others comes through in all her work.
Along with acting as CEO of her communications company, she sits on several non-profit boards, passionately works with the Alzheimer’s Association, and was named a ‘Woman of Distinction’ by the state of South Carolina. Nina Sossamon-Pogue inspires you to examine your life in a new way and empowers you to take control of your future and overcome anything that gets in your way.
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