Are Black Women Being Called To Withdraw Their Energy? A Conversation with Kamika Dillard

When it comes to shrinkage, it should only pertain to the versatile crown of a Black Woman’s hair. The suggestion or expectation of shrinkage in all other aspects of Black Women should not be tolerated. Black Women should not tone down speaking about their contributions and multi-faceted, highly hyphenated lifestyles, when many of them have always been the majority of masked heroines in the shadows of the world, ensuring things happen efficiently and masterfully. 

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In a time where society is undergoing astronomically, unavoidable changes, could one of them be the withdrawal of that highly desired, often falsely duplicated Black Woman energy and the shifting of where it’s exerted? Should Black Women be calling all their clean energy back from all directions to save themselves and the women that come after them? 

Consider the wave of layoffs that affected Black Women in the federal and corporate sectors in 2025. Some of the most qualified and educated of Black Women were laid off in massive numbers. Many thought of it as a devastating loss, but could it have been divine intervention? Why should such brilliant minds spend all of their potent energy inflating spaces that act as if they are valueless and expendable? When something greater requires your attention, the alerts and shifts can be loud, big and swift. 

Kamika Dillard was one of them—one of the 300,000 women that were laid off in 2025. She says that when she received the call informing her she was being released from her good corporate tech job, being in the midst of gallivanting through her previously booked experiences, lessened that blow. When reality hit, she knew it was time to get up, get out and do something. 

While in the “what’s next?” phase of her lay off transition, the encouragement of a good girlfriend ushered in Kamika’s next call to duty and brilliant ideas began to illuminate her mind. In addition to her culturally inherited crown, she gained a cape and began saving Black Women. 

Conversations are vital and can help with communal critical thinking. Listening is essential to gaining intelligence, thus receiving the answers that can offer valuable, positively life changing assists. That is the intent of Kamika’s podcast, Black Women S.A.V.E. Black Women–to curate a community with top tier professional perspectives that will support, amplify, validate, and elevate Black Women in their journey during their professional restructuring. 

“Everything that happened to me, actually happened for me.”

Kamika champions using her 20 years of highly educated, corporate executive level tech experience, on how she shifted to her next level, alongside vital non-physical tools needed to rise above the defeat of taking professional losses because of faultless layoffs. One of those non-physical tools was using the power of the mind to work in her favor and that is why the ICF certified Executive Coach founded Fail Forward Coaching. Kamika’s system of career and transformation programs are designed to remind Black Women that the shakeup was a setback for a setup.

Once the dust settles, Black Women are encouraged to move on and enter their Harlem Renaissance—as Vanity Jenkins discussed in an episode of Black Women S.A.V.E. Black Women, a resurgence of the energetic golden age that is positively recalibrating Black Women all over the world. Being self-full will essentially contribute to Black Women and naturally, it will permeate to the collective community like it did in the 1920’s and again, in the 1970’s. 

Black Women are communal people whether you see them smiling at the gas station when someone is demanding their attention or not. It’s the gas station sir; she’s just trying to pump her gas and go. Most Black Women are remembered for going the distance to provide assistance when they are able. When the soft era began its uprising, it was ridiculed by the ops who thrive off hardened energy, but the soft influence did not stop and now it is coupled with surrender. Surrender in the sense of, taking the path of the least resistance, more flow and less ebb.

Harnessing and recalibrating that clean, powerful energy for oneself and choosing the people, places, and things that deserve this renovated energy once it is ready to be disseminated.

“I am so hopeful about this collective reckoning for Black Women. I feel deep in my spirit that this will take us to a different level.”

Watch and listen to the master strategist of Koach Kam Consulting in conversation about the state of affairs of Black Women and why it is vital to shift from feeling rejected and to realize rejection is protective redirection. Black Women should feel safe in retreating and seeking refuge within their professional community as they take the steps into their next season. 

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Photo Credits: Kamika Dillard