Success Isn’t Inherited. It’s Hunted.

Some people wait for opportunity; lions cultivate the courage, instincts, and grit to create it for themselves.

Sebastian Bastian climbed from the margins to national leadership by moving like a lion—bold, strategic, and unafraid to create his own path.

Now he’s showing others how to rise on their own terms.

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The Lion Beneath the Fade

Part memoir, part playbook The Lion Beneath the Fade is a blueprint for creating opportunity, building resilience, and rising no matter where you start. It takes you behind the grill at Smiley’s, where a boy flipping $6.99 steaks in his father’s restaurant learned to create his own opportunities and eventually build businesses that helped reshape modern Bahamian industry. For anyone ready to stop waiting for opportunity and start hunting it, Sebastian Bastian’s raw storytelling and field-tested lessons reveal how courage, discipline, and lifelong learning can turn adversity into advantage – and how you can unleash your inner lion.
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Sebastian Bastian


Entrepreneur
Author
Innovator
Leader

Sebastian Bastian built his first business at 13, made his first million at 19, and never stopped rising. He built his career seizing overlooked opportunities and bulldozing new paths through some of the region’s most competitive industries.

Raised in a working-class home, he learned discipline and resourcefulness early, eventually founding and leading companies that would reshape sectors from gaming and technology, to logistics, real estate, and media. His work continues to push boundaries, expand access, modernize systems, and champion upward mobility for Bahamians.

Sebastian’s Story
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Sebastian Speaks

Tap into hard-earned lessons from a builder who has mastered navigating uncertainty, taking bold risks, and forging opportunity where others saw only limits. From his own unconventional rise, skipping school to install satellite dishes, to exposing the uncomfortable truths hiding behind your fear of failure, Sebastian doesn’t hold back. His talks blend grit, strategy, and out-of-the-box thinking into practical guidance for leaders, teams, and emerging builders.

Key Topics

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Evolve or Get Left Behind

How to think independently, act boldly, and innovate under pressure.
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Opportunity Craftsmanship

Opportunity isn’t found, it’s forged. It follows those who learn quickly, act decisively, and think for themselves.
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Risk, Reward, Repeat

How successful entrepreneurs navigate uncertainty
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Building from Constraints

Thriving in emerging and small markets

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