Hi, my name is Shea Lewis, cocktail artist, stuntman, a serial entrepreneur and athlete from Los Angeles.

Today I’m an award-winning Flair Bartender, Restaurant investor, Tequila owner, and coach to over 1000+ bartenders.

But life wasn’t always this way…

When I was just 26 years old, I found myself in the back of a cop car looking at my 3rd DUI in San Bernardino Ca.

This reckless bartender life I was living just cost me almost everything. Thank God I didn't hurt anyone.

2 years of riding a bicycle to work to pay off the debt, restarting my life, I thought I’d move out of town and completely start over.

At 28, The word "Mixologist" was starting to buzz so I knew that I had to surround myself with people that were motivated and experimenting with new techniques in the hospitality industry if I wanted to grow and push my limits. After winning every Flair bartending competition in California I found myself in Los Angeles starting at the bottom again, taking a job at a speakeasy next to a celebrity mixologist...and prepping his bar for service.

Studying under this mixologist I understood Molecular Mixology and how to turn cocktails into ice cream.

Then I went to work for another celebrity mixologist at a classic cocktail speakeasy learning the old ways and mastering the basics. But you guessed it...prepping the bar and taking the worst shifts, the scraps.

I hated it.

Only years later, grinding through the LA industry, working my way up the social ladder things turned around for me…

At 34, I found myself working at 2 of the hottest nightclubs and a well respected speakeasy, still doing double shifts and taking private clients for after hours parties when I got off work at 2am. This is when Mixology Flaired was born.

Seeing a gap in the private events industry and constantly being asked for private shows by successful event planners in Los Angeles, I knew that I had a unique skill that was nearly impossible to find outside of Las Vegas.

But before I succeeded, my grandfather passed away and all of a sudden I had nobody to turn to that had any business experience and I almost crashed Mixology Flaired into the ground…

I’d bootstrapped the company from the ground up with some help from friends. But in spite of all the popularity, I had no idea what I was doing, I was burning money left and right and we were starting to stagnate.