Heather Gammel | Shifting Your Identity from Performance to Purpose

What does it mean to keep going when everything in you wants to quit?

In this raw and inspiring #HolyAlivePodcast episode, we sit down with CrossFit Games athlete, wife, mom of three, and coach Heather Gammel to talk about the long road to the Games—including the years she came heartbreakingly close, the team she thought she’d be on but wasn’t, and the brutal injury she’s currently competing through: a spinal fluid leak.

Heather opens up about the mindset required to persevere through disappointment, the emotional toll of training through chronic pain, and the decision to choose joy—especially when joy feels out of reach. She shares the moment God became real to her in a new way, how her marriage was tested and strengthened through her competitive career, and what it looks like to shift identity away from performance and into purpose.

Whether you’re navigating setbacks, chasing a goal, or trying to find faith in the hard seasons, this episode is a reminder that you can keep going—and you don’t have to do it alone.

What we cover in this episode:

➡️ The emotional and spiritual toll of chronic injury

➡️ Letting go of performance identity in faith, motherhood, and fitness

➡️ What changed when Heather truly understood her need for a Savior

➡️ The shift from CrossFit being everything to simply something she loves

➡️ How she and her husband fought for their marriage in a competitive season

➡️ Raising daughters in a world obsessed with aesthetics

➡️ What it means to show up even when you’re not at your best—and let God do the rest

Links from the episode:

Point One Vision: www.pointonevision.com

Point One’s Instagram: www.instagram.com/pointonevision

Heather’s Instagram: www.instagram.com/simplyhappy3

Hosted by Lindsey Heidel, The Holy Alive Podcast brings you interviews, advice, and education on how to improve your physical life along with your mental, emotional, relational, and spiritual experiences.

Holy Alive is a production of Point One Vision, a 501c3 nonprofit organization that equips, empowers, and educates the fitness industry to exercise biblical living and what it means to be “strong to serve.”

Cover Image Photography: www.instagram.com/photopro_lubov

Music by Coma-Media from Pixabay