About Us

Our providers have over a decade of experience.

Meet Our Team

Paradise Hearing has been helping people hear better through hearing aids for over 25 years. Todd Gabaldon worked at the practice as a licensed hearing aid specialist for 15 years before taking ownership of the practice in 2019. Now, Todd and his wife Heather, own Paradise Hearing and take pride in helping the people of Arizona experience better hearing.

Paradise Hearing has seven convenient locations from Phoenix to Cottonwood to Yuma, AZ.

Todd Gabaldon

Owner and Hearing Instrument Specialist

Todd Gabaldon is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico. He moved to Arizona in 1995 to open a restaurant with his family and has stayed here ever since. In 2005, he became a licensed Hearing Instrument Specialist and has been working as a provider at Paradise Hearing for 17 years. In 2019, he became the owner of Paradise Hearing alongside his wife, Heather.

Making a difference in people’s lives by helping them hear better is an honor to Todd. Through better hearing, his patients are able to engage with their loved ones and get back to enjoying their life. Todd finds it incredibly rewarding to be able to help the people in his beloved community experience better hearing.

Todd loves sports, comedy shows, and dogs. When he is not at one of our seven offices, he enjoys spending time with his and Heather’s six rescue dogs and working with their timid foster dogs.

Watch videos to learn more about Todd and what to expect at your appointment.

Heather Gabaldon grew up in New Jersey and moved to Arizona in 1999 to go to ASU. She was an elementary school teacher, and then worked as a spokesmodel as well as a production manager for a local film company. Now she is happy to be the owner of Paradise Hearing, alongside her husband, Todd.

In her spare time, Heather enjoys volunteering with dog rescues, hiking, and paddleboarding.

Heather Gabaldon

Owner

Tonja Mere

Hearing Instrument Specialist

Tonja Mere started her career in hearing healthcare as a receptionist. Through her hard work and caring nature with patients she was promoted to a technician, and then in 2001 she became a licensed Hearing Aid Dispenser. She worked for one of the largest medical clinics in Michigan before moving to Arizona; and she spent five years as a district manager overseeing 21 locations in multiple states before joining Paradise Hearing over a year ago.

After many years in the hearing healthcare field, Tonja prefers to work one on one with her patients. She believes there is nothing more rewarding than to see the change on people’s faces when they can finally hear again.

Tonja enjoys spending time with her family, cooking, baking, and reading. She loves all animals but dogs are her favorite. Knowing that Paradise Hearing donates a part of their earnings to foundations that support dog rescues is a bonus for her.

Watch videos to learn more about Tonja and what to expect at your appointment.

Tom Lehnerer has been a Hearing Instrument Specialist for 23 years. He was born in Chicago but moved quite often. Finally, he ended up in Arizona because of family and the great weather. Tom is able to meet many different people and he enjoys being able to share in their excitement to be able to hear again.

Tom enjoys spending time with his friends and family, traveling, and experiencing new places. He also loves to play golf.

Tom Lehnerer

Hearing Instrument Specialist

Watch videos to learn more about Tom and what to expect at your appointment.

Nancy Venegas

Administrative Manager

Nancy Venegas has been a part of the Paradise Hearing team for seven years. She enjoys meeting and greeting all of the people who come to Paradise Hearing. It is an unbeatable feeling for Nancy to see the people who leave our office with hearing aids and feel like our team was able to truly help someone hear again.

Nancy is an Arizona native and feels the heat in the summer makes for great outdoor weather from October through April. Nancy and her family like to take advantage of the weather by exploring all of the beauty that Arizona has to offer.

Nancy is bilingual in English and Spanish.

How We Give Back to Our Community

Todd and Heather have been volunteering and fostering for Breeder Release Adoption Service for over 11 years. Breeder Release Adoption Service is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Colorado with foster homes in CO, NM, and AZ. The mission of Breeder Release is to, “Provide help and comfort to dogs who are being released from breeders for any reasons, surrendered dogs who the owners can no longer care for, and dogs who are placed on euthanasia lists in shelters. We educate the public on the importance of altering their pets, preventing euthanasia, and the need to rescue abandoned pets.”

Over the years, Todd and Heather have personally fostered and found wonderful homes for over 80 dogs and counting! Heather has also volunteered at the shelter in Colorado, assisted in transporting dogs from the CO shelter to AZ foster homes, and volunteered at many of the local adoption events here in AZ. They believe it is important to educate the public on the benefits of adoption. There are so many wonderful dogs available at the shelter and in rescue groups.

We donate a portion of our earnings to Breeder Release rescue ever year.

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Locations

(623) 875-7323