Purpose and Performance Ep. 2-Andra's Testimony
Purpose and Performance: Faith, Fitness and Athletic Integration
Release Date: 01/18/2026
Purpose and Performance Ep.5-Forward Is a Pace | Faith, Running, and Consistent Progress
Purpose and Performance: Faith, Fitness and Athletic Integration
In this episode of the Purpose & Performance Podcast, we explore how “Forward is a pace” applies to both running and faith. From training plateaus, injury seasons, and missed workouts to spiritual dry seasons and waiting on God’s timing, we break down why consistency matters more than speed. Drawing from Scripture, endurance training, and real-life experience, this episode reminds you that faithful forward motion—no matter how slow—is still progress.
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Purpose and Performance Epi. 4 – Rest to Rise: Recovery, Sabbath, and Intentional Performance
Purpose and Performance: Faith, Fitness and Athletic Integration
In this episode, we explore how recovery, rest, and the biblical Sabbath are essential for peak athletic performance, strong relationships, and spiritual health. Blending exercise science with Scripture, we break down why sleep, nutrition, nervous system recovery, and intentional rest are critical for avoiding burnout and sustaining long-term performance. From endurance training to family life and faith, this conversation reframes rest as a God-designed rhythm—not a weakness. If you’re an athlete, coach, or high-performer struggling with fatigue or overtraining, this episode will challenge...
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Purpose and Performance Ep. 1-Who are We?
Purpose and Performance: Faith, Fitness and Athletic Integration
Episode 1: Who Are We? – Foundations of Faith in Every Endeavor introduces the heart behind the Purpose and Performance Podcast. In this opening episode, hosts Andra and Trevor share their personal journeys with faith, fitness, and competition—how performance once became identity, how discipline turned into pride or obligation, and how God reframed the body as a gift meant for stewardship, worship, and service. Together, they lay the foundation for honest conversations about living a holy and healthy life, confronting both the neglect and idolization of fitness within Christian culture,...
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Purpose and Performance Ep. 2-Andra's Testimony
Purpose and Performance: Faith, Fitness and Athletic Integration
In this powerful testimony episode, Andra shares her journey through childhood trauma, addiction, sobriety, and identity loss, and how fitness, endurance sports, and faith intersected to transform her life. From growing up in instability and navigating alcohol abuse, broken family relationships, and deep anger toward God, to becoming a personal trainer, CrossFit athlete, and later a triathlete, Andra reflects on how performance and discipline became a way to survive—but not to heal. Through motherhood, loss, anxiety, and her decision to stop drinking, she began a process of self-rediscovery...
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Purpose and Performance Ep. 3-Trevor's Testimony
Purpose and Performance: Faith, Fitness and Athletic Integration
Trevor shares a powerful testimony of growing up deeply rooted in church, drifting from faith through college, career, loss, and divorce, and ultimately finding restoration through surrender to God. From youth group and mission trips to athletic training, marriage, grief, and renewed faith, this episode explores what it means to wrestle with identity, purpose, and performance while being relentlessly pursued by grace. If you’ve struggled with hurt, balancing faith and ambition, or returning to God after walking away, this episode offers hope, honesty, and redemption.
info_outlineIn this powerful testimony episode, Andra shares her journey through childhood trauma, addiction, sobriety, and identity loss, and how fitness, endurance sports, and faith intersected to transform her life. From growing up in instability and navigating alcohol abuse, broken family relationships, and deep anger toward God, to becoming a personal trainer, CrossFit athlete, and later a triathlete, Andra reflects on how performance and discipline became a way to survive—but not to heal. Through motherhood, loss, anxiety, and her decision to stop drinking, she began a process of self-rediscovery that ultimately led her back to Christ. This episode explores faith and fitness, mental health, endurance training, sobriety, and purpose beyond performance, offering hope to athletes and high performers who feel successful on the outside but empty within.