Gail Hamilton

Gail's dreams are to share her experiences and knowledge through speaking, and to live a life of greatness every day, including, of course, continuing to 'soar.' Gail is available for keynote presentations, concurrent sessions, workshops and retreat

Gail Hamilton is a highly aclaimed professional speaker, singer, musician, and
author. She shares her message of bravery, empowerment, gratitude, and
positivity to audiences nationwide.

Born ten weeks premature and weighing a mere 2.5 pounds, Gail Hamilton and
her twin brother lived in separate incubators for six weeks with continual 100%
pure oxygen. Though her twin was not affected, this high oxygen level damaged
Gail's eyes and left her with partial vision. It was during elementary school that her
eyes developed cataracts; decreasing sight to total blindness.
Becoming totally blind is when Gail's imagination and inner vision took flight.
During this time of transformation, classical music became the center of
her world.

Despite personal challenges in her life, in High School Gail discovered her passion
for singing and continued her mastery of piano. Gail has taught piano lessons for
nearly 40 years! She graduated college with a degree in Voice, and then obtained
her Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance and Master of Arts degree in
Transpersonal Psychology.

Gail credits her voice teacher Margaret Thuenemann as being the first person she
met who viewed her as a singer who happened to be blind, and not as a blind
singer. This new perspective intensified her longing to spread her wings.
After college Gail moved to Colorado. While the next 25 years would prove to
be challenging, through the help of others she began her most meaningful life
transformation, "... believing that my desire to fly must be bigger than my fear of
falling," she says.

Gail changed from being a victim of her own circumstances to becoming the
creator of her destiny. She stopped blaming and started taking responsibility, and
aligned totally with faith, attitude, and action.
Gail has remained strong and unstoppable. She has contributed to the building
of her own Habitat for Humanity house, written and published a memoir, Soaring
into Greatness, a Blind Woman's Vision to Live her Dreams and Fly, and become
Ms. Colorado Senior America (2013) and Fourth Runner-Up in the National
Ms. Senior America Pageant. Gail is co-author, along with Louise Hay, of Speaking
Your Truth, a Woman's Anthology, Volume Three and Modern Day Miracles.
Gail's professional musical experience includes having sung the leading roles in
La Boheme as "Mimi" and in La Traviata as "Violetta."