40. Never Stop Reinventing Yourself - with Bakyt Aidaralieva

Bakyt Aidaralieva is a product management and player experience executive with 9+ years of experience supporting players, leading teams and building tools in companies like Supercell, EA, PlayRaven and Rovio in the Finnish Games Industry. Among the hit mobile games Bakyt has worked with are Hay Day, Clash of Clans, Boom Beach and Simcity Build It. She has built player support and community functions in two startups, the latest company being PlayRaven which was acquired by Rovio Entertainment, the creator of the Angry Birds brand. 

Bakyt is driven by learning new things, taking risks, and learning from failures. She shares in this episode her journey starting from Kyrgyzstan to international politics to working in games, to becoming a business coach. Among the highlights of our conversation:

-  What makes a great empathic leader?

- About the importance of finding a balance between personal and professional life. How developing your personal relationships makes you a better leader.

- Bakyt's approach to building automated tools for player support, saving the precious full-time of 5 backend developers.

- Bakyt's learnings failing a startup, and why the most life important life lessons happen with failure.

- What led Bakyt to the path of becoming a life and business coach, helping leaders to be more "whole" in workplaces.

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