diff --git a/.github/workflows/wheels.yml b/.github/workflows/wheels.yml
index bcb2595bf00..10e28ab318d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/wheels.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/wheels.yml
@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ jobs:
             echo "GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_SYSTEM_OPENSSL=true"
             echo "GRPC_PYTHON_BUILD_WITH_CYTHON=true"
             echo "GRPC_PYTHON_DISABLE_LIBC_COMPATIBILITY=true"
+            # GRPC on armv7 needs -lexecinfo (issue #56669) since home assistant installs
+            # execinfo-dev when building wheels. The setup.py does not have an option for
+            # adding a single LDFLAG so copy all relevant linux flags here (as of 1.43.0)
+            echo "GRPC_PYTHON_LDFLAGS=\"-lpthread -Wl,-wrap,memcpy -static-libgcc -lexecinfo\""
           ) > .env_file
 
       - name: Upload env_file