Born of out a traumatic relationship between a nightclub owner and a Las Vegas showgirl who was obsessed with metaphysics, Michael Bonahan has developed a unique level of spiritual understanding. A child of divorce, Michael began meditating at 9 years old and was initiated into Kryia Yoga at the age of 12. He self-initiated at the age of 14, taking responsibility for himself and the world he was co-creating around him.

Working as a carpenter during the summer, he put himself through a private arts high-school where he studied film production. In 1986, after two years of college, he started his first S-Corporation at the age of 19. Michael has since been a founding principal of an additional 15 profitable companies and served on more than 10 public service non-profit boards. Noted successes include: founding the Hawaii Island Film Commission; founding a single firm that built $63M in luxury home development; restructuring the governance of the Hualalai Ohana Foundation to become a multi-million dollar public charity; transforming the Kahilu Theatre into a sustainable community resource; and forming Boys to Men USA, a national youth mentoring corporation.

Michael is a founding partner of Wisdom Windfall and a contributor to its core-curriculum. He also currently serves as: an Owner of Blue Phoenix Construction; the President of Warrior Films, a socially-conscious film production company; the national board chair of Boys to Men USA, and a Certified Co-Leader in the global organization, the ManKind Project. He has developed the One Emotion Theory, and is a mentor, coach, and group facilitator for transformational processes including gestalt, in-utero regression, transpersonal connection, and systemic constellation therapy.