#461 - Nina Sossamon-Pogue gets REAL about the story from Olympic Dreams to Resilience Queen

#461 - Nina Sossamon-Pogue gets REAL about the story from Olympic Dreams to Resilience Queen

August 25, 2025 · 53 min · Season 15 · Episode 461

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Nina Sossamon-Pogue shares her journey from elite gymnast to resilience advocate, discussing her experiences and frameworks for overcoming adversity.

Join us this week on Be Real as we sit down with Nina Sossamon‑Pogue , a remarkable thought leader and speaker whose journey spans elite gymnastics, award-winning journalism, corporate leadership, authorship, and resilience advocacy. https://www.ninasossamonpogue.com/ From her early days as a USA Gymnast and Olympic hopeful—training away from home at just 13—to a career-ending injury at LSU, Nina's life took unexpected turns. She successfully transitioned into journalism as an Emmy‑winning news anchor, then pivoted again into the tech world as a corporate executive during a successful IPO. Still seeking purpose and meaning, she turned to writing, becoming a two‑time best‑selling author and pioneering innovative frameworks for embracing and thriving through adversity Thought Leadership Leverage +12 Nina Sossamon-Pogue +12 Apple Podcasts +12 . Through vivid storytelling and science‑backed strategies, Nina shares how she reframed failure, navigated public and personal setbacks—including trauma—and reshaped her narrative. Her frameworks like T.I.P.S., "THIS" moments, the Resilience Route Navigator, the reverse‑resume, and timeline thinking offer listeners practical tools to face…

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