SME Membership Meeting: Maggi Thorne

Tuesday, November 7, 2023
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
The Country Club of Sioux Falls

Meeting Sponsor:

Never Give Up

About Maggi Thorne
Maggi is an American Ninja Warrior 7X competitor who was the 2nd Mom up the warped wall and first to beat the salmon ladder. She is an NBC Spartan Ultimate Team Challenge 2X championship competitor and a previous Mrs. International beauty pageant winner in 2014.

After spending a decade designing and managing $340M in construction projects building stadiums and arenas, she has become CEO and Founder for JoyFLowCo to equip and inspire active women in her spare time.

She has placed 2nd in The World’s Toughest Mudder running 75 miles and completing 330 obstacles in 24 hours.

Maggi travels the nation passionately sharing her love for people and motivational speaking inspiring men, women and children of all ages to Never Give Up and to “pursue your dreams no matter what life throws at you!”, Maggi graduated from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln as a Husker Track & Field Team Captain and Big 12 honor roll athlete and team captain.

No stranger to pain and trials, Maggi’s story of becoming a single mom,  raising her three children, and maintaining a thriving career will encourage women on every level.  Her charisma and energy are magnetic and her faith will leave you with a hope that life can truly give you beauty for ashes.

Maggi serves as a spokesperson for AIM to inspire people into Tech Careers and served as a Global Ambassador for feedONE traveling the world in an effort to further feedONE’s mission of wearing out help others with the gift of a nutritious meal. Recently she created a BOW patch with the Girl Scouts to inspire female entrepreneurship, empowerment and community engagement, which thousands of scouts have earned since 2019.

Maggi is a previous Governor’s Award Winner for Inspiring Community Engagement and American Heart Association Heart of Gold Award Recipient. Professionally she speaks to hundreds of thousands on inspiration and never giving up in addition to engaging volunteers globally. A Mother of 3, she and her kids love serving, being active and traveling together. In her spare time she loves to eat chips & salsa.