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Nina Sossamon-Pogue

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Motivator & Author on Resilience, Adversity & Achievement

Nina Sossamon-Pogue is a hyper-growth technology executive, Emmy-winning television news anchor, USA Gymnast, best-selling author and podcast host.

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Nina Sossamon-Pogue is sought-after speaker and author on resilience, adversity and achievement. A former member the USA Gymnastics team, she became an award-winning journalist and television news anchor, then left TV for tech and was on the leadership team of a technology company during its hyper-growth expansion and highly a successful IPO. Her ability to adapt in a positive way each time her life took a turn, lead her to research and write about resilience.

Having enjoyed success at some of the highest levels of sport, television, and corporate America, and endured some very public failures and devastating life events, she shares a proven framework for resilience. She is the author of the best-selling book, This is Not the End: Strategies to Get You Through the Worst Chapters of Your Life, in which she offers strategies to handle life’s hardships so you can control your own destiny. Sossamon-Pogue is also the host of the podcast This Seriously Sucks, the Right Podcast When Life Goes Seriously Wrong and inspires audiences to think of their futures in new ways.

As the CEO of NSP Communications, she founded Nclusion.Speak, a keynote collaboration with DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) speakers to help audiences adapt in a positive way to the call for inclusion that is happening in our society.

Sossamon-Pogue is a graduate of Louisiana State University and was on the LSU gymnastics team. She has three ‘adulting’ college graduates and enjoys her empty nest in Charleston, South Carolina with her husband Ben Pogue.

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THIS: From Adversity to Achievement – Strategies to Succeed at the Highest Levels

Resilience Is Not a Destination

You’ve Got THIS – Empowering You to Handle Anything Life Throws at You

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