Travels from Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Nina Sossamon-Pogue's speaking fee falls within range: $20,000 to $25,000
Nina Sossamon-Pogue is an experienced thought leader who emboldens audiences to take on change with confidence. A former USA Gymnast, Emmy award-winning TV News Anchor, Successful Tech executive, and Best-Selling Author, Nina is known for constantly adapting, evolving, and reaching new levels of success.
Nina gives audiences the motivation, mindset, and tools to ‘Navigate Change Like a Pro’.
Her powerful framework for resilience is delivered through a dynamic blend of personal insights, science, stoicism, and storytelling, that emboldens audiences to reignite their drive, tackle a challenge, and reach new levels of success.
A master communicator with a great sense of humor, Nina is instantly likable, intelligent, and inspirational. Her Keynotes arouse the mind and emotions with clever ideas and stories that move people to act. Her message elevates individual well-being, fosters collaboration, and drives sustained success.
As a professional emcee, her blend of intelligence and expertise enables her to engage every audience and smoothly manage any event, from intimate gatherings to large ballrooms.
Nina and her husband Ben have three adult children and an old Jack Russel named Lulu. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina, and speaks throughout the United States helping organizations turn ‘Change’ into something their people expect and feel confident about, instead of something they fear and feel stressed about.
You Got ‘THIS’: Navigate Change Like a Pro
Empowering hardworking audiences to thrive through change.
In today’s fast-paced, globally connected world, the relentless flow of change fuels stress and anxiety, impacting our happiness, health, and career success. How we react to change can make all the difference.
"You Got THIS" explores why change feels so challenging and why we instinctively resist it - and then provides a transformative framework to navigate any challenge with a resilient mindset. Through a dynamic blend of personal insights, science, stoicism, and storytelling, Nina Sossamon-Pogue guides audiences on a journey to reframe change from something to be feared into something expected.
This time together elevates individual well-being, fosters stronger collaboration, and drives sustained success, helping to build a more resilient culture. Empower your team with tools to turn change into a force that strengthens rather than wears them down.
Audience takeaways: THIS presentation is a fun, Aha! experience. Using the word ‘THIS’ to represent challenges of all sizes, Nina shows audiences how to efficiently put ‘THIS’ in its place, take control of the anxiety and stress that ‘THIS’ creates, and confidently keep moving forward.
Nina reminds today’s workforce of how far they have come - while giving them the tools to manage stress, maintain perspective, and foster collaboration - driving sustained success and innovation.
Mastering Resilience: Navigating a Lifetime of Success
Empowering your Top Talent to Maintain Exceptional Performance
Tough times don’t last AND no one stays on top forever. Nina challenges high achievers to rethink success from a ‘goal’ to a lifetime of achievements and gives them tools to confidently keep raising the bar.
Nina delves into the cycle of continuous ambition and chronic stress that can undermine even the most dedicated professionals. (this is an excellent presentation for leadership teams) Addressing the relentless drive to surpass previous achievements, compounded by modern technology’s perpetual demands and constant connectivity, Nina takes audiences on a journey into their own successes and failures, then introduces insights that empower individuals to boldly continue to take on new challenges.
Audience takeaways: This session helps smart, ambitious, leaders who are working hard in today’s constantly connected comparison culture, unleash unwavering confidence and gives them a framework to handle any challenges ahead.
This powerful time together is packed with actionable insights to improve mental well-being, increase productivity, and improve culture.
Resilience 101 (College)
For Young Adult Audiences
You’re in the game! Success comes with challenges and achievements, and young people have a lifetime of those ahead of them. A session for today’s high-achieving students feeling the pressure to succeed.
Students are struggling with mental wellness and today’s digital overload, constant connectivity, machine learning, FOMO culture is throwing fuel on the fire. Unless students plan to sit on the sidelines and watch others succeed, they’re in the game. Nina prompts young audiences to rethink achievements and challenges, demonstrating that knowing how to navigate both the highs (Now what?) and lows (Now what?) is like having a cheat code!
The session is relevant, actionable, uplifting and delivers lasting impact. Using her own stories as a D1 student-athlete, her years being ‘popular’ on TV, and her decade as a ‘successful’ Tech executive, Nina shares the failures and challenges that accompanied her success and takes young audiences into their own possible futures full of successes and failures.
Audience takeaways: Nina transforms young audiences, giving them a framework to go from stressed and overwhelmed by uncertainty - to empowered to take control of their future, and their mental health.
“We have speakers all the time – Nina and her team really did the research to find out what this audience is about and really tailored her presentation to meet the needs of the actual audience. Her message is professional yet personal. ” — Lori Lombardi / President, One Connection Management Group
“We have heard so much positive feedback about Nina’s speech at our annual breakfast event. I even got “BEST ONE YET!”. She really connected and made an impact on our attendees. There was one moment when I think no one took a breath. She’s so motivational.”
— Cady Nell Keener | Co- Chair | Ellevate SC
“Nina is a pro. She knows how to handle a room from the stage and she could jump back stage and help trouble shoot AV issues. She knows her stuff and she’s fun to work with. Nina understands the sublime and what it takes to emotionally communicate an impactful message to every single person in the audience – and that is a rare gift.”
— Quinn McMurtry | Producer & Creative Director | MAC Productions AV & Live Event Production
“Her energy is contagious! It is obvious that Nina takes time to prepare. She gives the audience useful advice that they can take back to their companies, and use for their personal success too.”
— James Kelly | Senior Vice President, Sales | HSA Bank
“Nina is great to work with because she gets it from the planning side of the speaker business. Because she has lead marketing and events teams, she knows the value of learning the audience, showing up on time prepared, and delivering on her promises.”
— Hunter Smyth | Director, Event Marketing | Benefitfocus
“It (her keynote) was a very impressive and very thoughtful, provoking, insightful presentation. It certainly did it for me and I’ve gone through about 40 of these.”
— Ernest Andrade / Executive Director, Charleston Digital Corridor
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This Is Not The End.: Strategies to Get You Through the Worst Chapters of Your Life
Advice on how to handle a rough chapter in your life, from someone who’s been there before.
Nina Sossamon-Pogue, former world-class gymnast and award-winning television personality turned successful corporate executive, pulls from decades of high, lows, and public pain to write This Is Not the End. It became the resource Nina needed when she thought her life was over and sometimes wished it were.
In this book, Nina shares candid stories of her own journey toward healing after a series of traumatic events. She uses the wisdom gained from her experience, combined with proven and practical tips, to show those going through a difficult time how to:
· Figure out where to put this event in their head · Create the script that will protect them in public · Assess which people and places are helping or hurting them · Learn how to look at a traumatic event as a fraction of their life story · Understand that even the most public pain (television trucks on the front lawn) comes and goes · Practice the mental gymnastics needed to get them to the next chapter (yes, there is a next chapter!)
While today may seem miserable, This Is Not the End can help you see that your life is not ruined. You’re merely in a tough plot twist, and better days are ahead…
But I Want Both: The Working Mom’s Guide to Creating a Life She Loves
Imagine excelling in your career and feeling like a great parent!
When your career takes off at the same time you start your family, everyone needs more from you at once. You know you could be great at both work and family life, but you feel like you are failing at both. What’s the secret? You don’t want to give up what you’ve worked so hard for, but you worry you are missing out or messing up your kids. At this point in life, it seems everyone is counting on you, and if you even think about the things you want to do, you feel selfish.
Think again! It’s possible to keep being a key player at work, stay on the fast track to success, and be involved at home, being the parent you want to be. In But I Want Both, bestselling author Nina Sossamon-Pogue draws from her experience as a parent and a professional to show you how you can have a successful, high-stakes career and wonderful life with your family. Learn how to:
· Stop worrying that you are failing as a parent · Feel confident in your skills and value at work · Be ready for anything life throws at you a · Stop looking at the clock like it’s your enemy · Feel great about the choices you make
If you’re spending time at work feeling like you should be at home and using up your time at home feeling like you should be working, then But I want Both can help. Don’t let your life zoom by feeling like you are missing out in both places!
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