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Blaz Marolt

Blaz Marolt

Fractional COO & Operations Lead helping founder-led businesses systematize operations; West Point graduate and former military officer.

Aug 8, 2026

23:36
So tell us more laws about your experiences and kind of what brought you to I mean, I know you discussed what brought you to being an entrepreneur, but tell us a little more about your other experiences and how they fed into you being the entrepreneur that you are today.
23:57
Yeah, so there are two big, or one big experience, and it lasted through my childhood, pretty much, was I was traumatized a lot as a child, so, aka, for people that know, I was abused as a child, so... emotionally, more or less, and psychologically.
24:18
And that kind of like was following me throughout pretty much my whole childhood and career as well.
24:24
So all of the things that I was doing, always looking after others.
24:29
It was the reason why I went into the military, selfless service and everything else, like serving everybody else but myself, which after I left the military... was portraying also within the business environment.
24:44
And one of the bigger symptoms, especially with people who had these traumatic experiences like I have, is we tend to get burned out a lot more often than the majority of people that haven't gone through those traumatic experiences.
25:02
So I got burned out two and a half times.
28:40
And I guess I really do applaud you because that takes a lot of strength and a lot of courage to not only work through those issues, but also come out on the other end stronger more aligned, more heart-centered.
2:57
So you might kind of similar, because I think it's important if they hear it like I heard it.
3:03
Yeah.
3:04
So I went to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, graduated in 2012.
3:09
Then I went back to the Slovenian military.
3:11
I was there for five years, so until 2017.
3:14
In 2016, I actually got my MBA as well, since I was thinking about going into business.
3:21
And then, so January 2017 was when I left the military and I became a plant production director for a company that was producing electronics.
6:46
So when you went to the first job after doing so many years of military, how was that transition for you?

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