Gael Hannan is a hearing health advocate, speaker and writer who lives with profound hearing loss. She creates award-winning awareness projects that help people live more successfully with their hearing challenges, including the acclaimed one-woman show “Unheard Voices, her humorous memoir “The Way I Hear It”, and regular blogs for Canadian Audiologist and  HearingHealthMatters.org that have a passionate international following.  “Hear & Beyond: Live Skillfully with Hearing Loss” (co-authored with Shari Eberts) is the supportive how-to guide she wishes she’d had at the start of her hearing loss journey. Gael lives on Vancouver Island.