What Happens to a Friendship When You Succeed?

There’s a kind of friendship that holds you steady — not just when you’re struggling, but when you’re soaring.

The kind where your success is their joy, your courage is their inspiration, and your happiness doesn’t provoke comparison, but celebration.

Too often, friendships falter not in hardship, but in triumph. Someone lands the promotion, meets someone wonderful, or dares to reach higher — and suddenly, the air shifts. Jealousy creeps in. Resentment stirs. Because the truth is, not everyone knows how to hold space for your joy if it unsettles something in their own life.

And when that happens, it’s not your joy that causes the rupture — it’s their reflection.

But the right friendships don’t flinch in the light. They lift you higher. They give you the confidence to aim further because they’re cheering you on — not from a distance, but from beside you. They don’t dilute their support with backhanded compliments or passive comparisons.

They show up, wholly and generously, knowing that your glow doesn’t dim theirs.

You each have your own goals, your own timelines, your own definitions of ‘more’ — but you walk the path side by side. You brainstorm. You laugh. You unpack the hard days and celebrate the small wins. You make space for each other’s relationships, ideas, heartbreaks, ambitions.

And when one of you flies, the other doesn’t hold the string — they hold the wind.

This is the kind of energy we care about at BTSC.

We believe that who you surround yourself with shapes everything: your vision, your resilience, your belief in what’s possible.

Our hope is that the people you meet through this community are the ones who lift you up and never clip your wings. Who feel joy — not envy — when you rise. Who give as much as they receive. Who are still there when you fall, but just as present when you soar.

Friendship like that is rare. But when you find it, it changes everything.