FROM launching a nightclub at the age of 24 to bringing sporting hall of famers to Dorset, Ty Temel has quite the résumé.

Trace his journey to the present day and his ventures include Bournemouth venue Halo, a gym and coffee shop, an events brand and a seafront musical festival.

Speaking during an interview for the Daily Echo’s podcast, The Echo Dispatch, Ty said he started by giving out flyers for nightclubs in the town before discovering his “natural knack for networking”.

He soon moved on to selling tickets and running his own club events.

An operational manager role for nine months followed before he took the leap into opening Halo in 2013.

By his own admissions he was “very young and to be frank didn’t have a clue what I was doing”.

Asked how he balanced his time between his various ventures, Ty said: “I have got this thing where I have a really short attention span.

“It was a bit of a hindrance at school in the educational system because I couldn’t concentrate for too long on something but it has become a bit of a super power in business because it allows me to spin multiple plates, projects, without feeling the pressure as much as other people would, so I can give 110 per cent focus on something for a short period of time and move on.”

In early 2020, Halo underwent a £500,000 refurbishment, but then the pandemic hit.

Months of uncertainty followed, even recently with the implementation of Plan B restrictions. But Halo is preparing to open its doors and welcome revellers for New Year’s Eve.

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Discussing if he had doubts since starting out in business many years ago, Ty told the podcast: “There are always doubts. I don’t believe that anyone at any level doesn’t have doubts. I don’t believe if you spoke to Anthony Joshua when he is walking down to the ring that he doesn’t have a doubt in his head. It is just about controlling that chimp, as they say.

"It is the voices in your head that are trying to doubt yourself. It is about putting them to one side or for me the team is really important.

“If I ever doubt myself, we speak it out or if they doubt themselves or if we doubt what we are doing, we talk it out, we talk about the pros and cons, we write some lists down about what could go wrong.

“As long as you have plans in place and processes and structure, the better those processes are the doubts go smaller and smaller.”

A challenge for many in business is to stay motivated after tasting success. For Ty this does not seem to be a problem.

Asked how he stays motivated, he said: “Probably just bettering myself. That is something I learned probably in the past five years. Prior to that I was always trying to compete with others. Now it is just about who I was yesterday, just that one per cent, the small positive changes that will add up over a long period of time.

“Also, for me growing up my dad used to always say the true form of success is to be able to affect those around you positively. That was kind of instilled in me. He would say it in Turkish but it kind of translated to that.

“For me it is just about making myself better, my team – we all win, everyone is happy and healthy.

“That is the main thing I strive for.”

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