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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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 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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