Author, Healer, Actor
Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Michael left a cushy job on the Stock Market to move to Los Angeles to work with children in the entertainment field.
To date he has worked as a writer; POWER RANGERS for 2 years; Creator/Producer; The Kookie Clubhouse Kingdom & Mysteries By Mike & US A to Z; and finally, as a Teacher; Summer Art Academy (17 years), Parker-Anderson (10 years) and Camp Paseo.
As an actor and performer, Michael has worked alongside and/or for John Stamos, Idina Menzel, George Clooney, Ben Afleck, Alison Arngrim, Rainn Wilson, Dee Wallace, Michelle Pfeiffer, Diedre Hall and many others. He also appeared in a the FARRAHWEEN Special 2 years ago DRACULA on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Michael is a sexual abuse survivor, having endured being abused for 2 years from age 7 to 9, being abused by his uncle while growing up in a housing project outside of Boston. He is also a 33 AIDS “victor” and as of 2011 he overcame AIDS after being told in 1990 he had 7 to 9 years to live. In 1993 he moved to Los Angeles with the idea that he would ‘die in a warmer climate’. Michael also escaped a religious cult that he was a part of for over 6 years and was set to become one of their most charismatic leaders before his escape on January 2nd, 1986. He was ‘hunted’ down by cult members for years after because he ‘knew too much.’ And on Father’s day 2020, his world was turned upside down when he finally found his biological father, John McHale along with 5 incredible brothers and sisters. He took his fathers last name later that year and is working on a one man show about their initial meetings.
As Mystery Mike he has trained close to 1 MILLION children to be Spy Kidz over the years all across the Country. He has been told by parents in the past that he ‘speaks kid’. His main goal as a Teacher, writer, Creator and Producer, has ALWAYS been to make education fun and interactive and he has successfully accomplished this through his interactive, educational Mystery Company mysteriesbymike and the Live Interactive, educational mystery musical comedy, “The Kookie Clubhouse Kingdom” which was on stage recently for the FRINGE Festival and is now being produced as an interactive web series along with his other show “US A to Z”, a fun interactive geography show in development now.
He is also the creator of DinoDogz an educational, interactive story/game about Dogs that turn into Dinosaurs to save to the world and has created a movement called #DinoDogzDonates 50/50 Challenge and partners up with various children and animal charities around the nation and donates 50% of all profits to a different charity each month. If you have a charity you'd like to be considered for this send him an email at 99DinoDogz@gmail.com for more information. Subject line #DinoDogzDonates
Michael recently launched his Children’s YouTube channel “Mystery Mike’s FunHouse” On TikTok, Instagram and Facebook too) where he brings all of his teaching and performance talents to the masses.
Michael Sean McHale
Trigger warning this episode contains mature subject matter listener discretion is advised. Like an onion the human life experience has many layers on today's episode we slowly peel back the layers of the amazing life of Mike...