29. How to Become the Youngest Woman to Take a Company Public with Luvleen Sidhu, CEO of BM Technologies

How do you go from bankruptcy and bulimia to CEO and invited guest of the Dalai Lama? 

Most of us would keep these hidden and locked in a deep dark cavern. But not Nichol Ng, CEO and Managing Director of X-Inc Private Limited, the parent of a group of companies that has been in the food business since the 1930s. At age 19, when the bank came with papers to take away her family’s home, she promised herself that if she was able to save the family business, she would help as many families as she could. 

Today the business is thriving with 200 employees, more than 7,000 products, and over 4,500 customers. Not only that – Nichol has made good on her promise. She founded The Food Bank Singapore, which distributes food to over 300,000 underprivileged. Nichol was named to The Peak magazine’s The Peak Power List 2016, Forbes Asia’s 2017 Heroes of Philanthropy, and Harper’s Bazaar’s The Power List 2018. Nichol didn’t stop there. She took that dark secret of struggling with bulimia for over two decades and she shared it with as many people as she could – on TV and throughout Singapore. She wanted people to know how normal it is and the risks Nichol was now facing, struggling to make her dream come true and become a mom because of the damage to her body. Thankfully Nichol is now a mom to four kids and married to a partner of 24 happy years. How does she make it all work? 

In Women of Color Rise, one of our tenets is to Be Yourself. Nichol is a great example of this. She shares that one of her secrets to success has been being herself – at work, home, and life. This has allowed her to release the myth of being perfect, to be vulnerable and share her struggles, to ask for help, and to let go of the need to control others. 

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