Uplift: She focuses on helping people navigate life’s toughest transitions with resilience.
The Steve Harvey Morning Show
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4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Nina Sossamon-Pogue.
A former elite gymnast, Emmy-winning news anchor, bestselling author, and resilience expert.
Here’s a summary of the key themes and insights from the episode:
🎙️ Guest Introduction: Nina Sossamon-Pogue
- Former USA Gymnastics team member and Emmy-winning news anchor.
- Author of This Is Not the End and host of the podcast This Seriously Sucks.
- Focuses on helping people navigate life’s toughest transitions with resilience.
🧠 Mental Health & Daily Routines
- Nina emphasizes the importance of gratitude, mindfulness, and limiting early phone use to start the day with clarity.
- Rushion shares his own structured morning routine and how it helps him manage stress and stay productive.
💪 Resilience and Personal Growth
- Nina defines resilience as the ability to adapt positively and grow stronger from adversity.
- She encourages people to reflect on what’s going right, what needs attention, and how to move forward with purpose.
🧍♀️ Body Image, Athletics & Social Media
- Nina shares her experience with body dysmorphia and bulimia during her gymnastics career in the 1980s.
- She discusses the long-term impact of being judged by appearance in both sports and television.
- Offers advice to parents and young athletes on navigating body image in the age of social media.
📘 Her Book: This Is Not the End
- Written for people facing major life setbacks—job loss, injury, grief, or personal failure.
- Nina shares five personal “this is the end” moments, including:
- Not making the Olympic team.
- Career-ending knee injury.
- Losing her job as a news anchor.
- A traumatic accident at age 37.
- The book provides seven strategies and a four-step framework (T.H.I.S.) to help readers move forward:
- Timeline: Gain perspective on your life journey.
- Humans: Lean on others—don’t go it alone.
- Isolate: Focus on the present moment.
- Story: Reframe your internal narrative to stay empowered and hirable.
🎧 Podcast Highlight
- Nina’s podcast This Seriously Sucks features guests who’ve overcome major life challenges.
- She highlights Joe Delagrave, a Paralympian and coach, whose story of resilience and transformation deeply inspired her.
💬 Closing Thoughts
- Rushion praises Nina’s authenticity, voice, and ability to connect.
- Nina encourages listeners to embrace their “this” moment and remember: “This is not the end.”
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | Hi, I'm Roshan McDonnell. |
| 0:06.7 | I host the weekly Moneymaking Conversation Masterclass show. |
| 0:09.7 | The interviews and information that this show provides are for everyone. |
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| 0:30.1 | My guest is a sought-after speaker, two-time bestselling author, and podcast hosts. |
| 0:35.0 | Drawn on her extensive research and experience in communications, corporate leadership, she helps individuals and organizations thrive through challenges |
| 0:39.4 | to reach new levels of success. She's here to tell us all about it. Please welcome to Money Making |
| 0:45.8 | Conversation Masterclass, Nina Sossaman Pogue. How you doing, Nina? I am doing great. Thanks so much |
| 0:51.8 | for having me on. I am looking forward to this conversation. |
| 0:54.6 | Well, first of all, when I found out you lived in Charles and South Carolina, you know, the thumbs went up on both hands. |
| 1:01.6 | Tell us about your community. |
| 1:03.6 | So Charleston's a fabulous community. I moved here in 1992, so I've been here a long time, and I came here for a television gig, just for a reporter position, and I just fell in love with Charleston and stayed. But I'm in, I live in the Mount Pleasant area. Now I'm in the park circle, like, North Charleston area. But I'm very much a part of this community. After being the news anchor here for like 15 years, I'm sort of part of the woodwork. Absolutely. So, you know, the thing about being in front of the camera, leadership, |
| 1:31.3 | motivation, we've seen that's a dominant part of social media. And because of social media, |
| 1:36.9 | mental stress, you know, I've admitted many times on this show how I've had to deal with |
| 1:43.1 | mental stress. And I'm not saying, I know how to deal with mental stress. And I'm not saying, |
| 1:45.3 | I know how to deal with it correctly. When you talk about mental stress in the everyday life, |
| 1:50.1 | how do you approach it, Nina? Well, there's a lot of pieces and parts to stress. But I think |
| 1:56.2 | what's really interesting now is all our lives are so public, it adds stress to it. So think about back in the day, |
| 2:02.1 | like when I was a gymnast at LSU, I would have my sweatshirt that said, you know, I was a gymnast on |
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