30. From Bankruptcy, Bulimia to Guest of the Dalai Lama with Nichol Ng, CEO and Managing Director of X-Inc Private Limited

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

Most of us would keep these hidden in a deep dark cavern. But not Nichol Ng, CEO of X-Inc Private Limited, the parent of a group of companies in the food business since the 1930s. At age 19, when the bank came to take away her family’s home, Nichol promised 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, and 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. 

What about her two decade secret struggle with bulimia? Nichol shared it with as many people as she could – on TV and throughout Singapore. She wanted people to know how normal eating disorders are and that they can damage your body, including Nichol’s struggle to get pregnant. Thankfully Nichol is now a mom to four kids. 

How does Nichol 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 to Be 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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