NINA SOSSAMON-POGUE

“I want to be in a room full of smart, hard-working people who are facing a challenge or change and embolden them to keep going, then give them the tools to handle anything that gets in their way.” ~Nina

Nina is an influential thought leader, whose experience as a communicator powers her ability to share her framework for handling a challenge.

She’s had her own success, now she is passionate about other people’s success.

As someone who’s adapted through a lifetime of major challenges as an elite athlete, Emmy winning news anchor and Corporate Leader, she openly shares her struggles and how she overcame the challenges along the way.

Referred to as a rare ‘triple-threat’ in the speaking world, for her experience in sports, television and tech, Nina connects with audiences on multiple levels.

Nina was a member of the USA Gymnastics team in the 1980’s, then became an award-winning journalist and Emmy-award winning television news anchor. Nina left TV for Tech and spent 12 years on the leadership team of a technology company during its hyper-growth expansion and highly successful IPO.

Nina’s repeated successes, the highs, are only part of her story. Her ability to adapt and find new levels of success after each devastating plot twists in her life (the lows) is a testament to resilience and determination. After repeatedly being asked, “How’d you do that?”, she began her research into why some people thrive while others struggle or get stuck when faced with adversity. Years of research and two books later, she identified the specific actions and mental shifts needed to ‘adapt in a positive way’ to the challenges that life hands us. She created a proven framework that anyone can use to handle adversity and reach new levels of success..

An expert on Resilience, Nina uses her story as a backdrop to show how the highs and lows in each person’s story create a lifetime of learning and new strength. She challenges audiences to rethink their own life journey, identify strengths, and take on new challenges, and she gives them tools to handle anything that gets in their way.

Her first book, This is Not The End: Strategies to Get You Through the Worst Chapters of Your Life (2019 Morgan James Publishing) is for readers going through life changing events. It offers readers strategies to handle life’s most difficult challenges and control their own destiny. Nina is also the host of the podcast “This Seriously Sucks, the Right Podcast When Life Goes Seriously Wrong”, where she shares stories of amazing people who have overcome devastating challenges.

Nina sits on several non-profit boards and is an Executive Advisor with the Alzheimer’s Association. She focused her efforts on Alzheimer’s when it took her father from her in 2017.

Nina has lived a very public life with a subplot of encouraging people. As a teenage gymnast, Nina was named Miss Congeniality at the USA Gymnastics Championships. During her television career she was voted Charleston’s Favorite News Anchor for 10 consecutive years. As a corporate leader, Nina was named a ‘Woman of Distinction’ by the state of South Carolina. Her friends say, caring about others is in Nina’s DNA.

Nina and her husband Ben have three adult children who are recent college graduates.  Nina lives in Charleston, South Carolina and speaks throughout the United States, inspiring audiences to take control of their lives and think of their future in new ways.

Her Mission:

‘Helping Hardworking Humans Thrive Though Tough Times’

- it’s wordy for a mission, but the focus on ‘hardworking’ is important. Nina’s message is aimed at people who are striving to achieve, trying hard and often getting frustrated, exhausted or burned out. She knows they can do THIS!

We’re in a Mental Health Crisis that is crippling individuals and organizations across the globe. Nina’s message can help during this unprecedented time.

In her Resilience keynote “You’ve Got THIS!” Nina addresses the need to ‘adapt in positive way’ to change. She offers unique concepts of a high ‘Achievers Success Cycle’, your ‘Lifetime Timeline’ and your ‘Reverse Resume’ and gives the audience ‘THIS framework’ to handle the challenges ahead.

Highlights include:

• Aha moments! – sharing research, data and insights about success and failure, Nina allows the audience to figure out how their own strengths and weaknesses play a role in their success.

• Levity – using pop culture, current events, and stories from her life, Nina makes sometimes difficult concepts, easy to ingest.

• Head & Heart – simplifying complex concepts through stories and analogies to challenges the audience’s thinking, Nina also tugs at heartstrings to connect and influence audiences to care.

• Big Picture Thinking - combining years of research and her own experience at the highest levels of sport, television and corporate America, Nina shares unique insights into into today’s competitive workplace.

• Proprietary Practical Framework – applying Neuroscience, Stoic Philosophy, Cognitive Behavior research and more, to data in Forbes, Harvard Business Review and Psychology Today, Nina created her resilience framework, ‘THIS Framework’, that empowers her audience to take control of any challenge they face.