This is a story about how a scientist, a researcher at Brunel University became a rural mayor. The episode is about Bella Gazdieva, the head of the Akmola branch of the Academy of Public Administration under the President of Kazakhstan, Candidate of Philological Sciences, former mayor of the rural district. Bella Gadzhieva's career path is a real guide to the challenges faced by a modern woman on the way to self-realization., and now is doing her contribution being as a civil servant of the country. Bella Gazdieva's experience and competence allowed her to be a guest lecturer at the University of Cambridge. Life-long Learning is her life motto.