What does it actually take to leap into the unknown? Not the polished, highlight reel version, but the real, messy, terrifying moment when you face the hardest thing and decide to leap anyway?

This May Be a Bad Idea is a podcast about exactly that. Host Nicole Butts sits down with everyday people who have faced what felt like the impossible… and leaped anyway. Not because they had all the answers. Not because they weren't scared. But because they believed that leaping and trying was the only option.

These are ordinary people seeking extraordinary lives. They are people just like you, navigating grief and job loss, leaving the only home they've ever known, betting on themselves for the very first time. They are people who packed up their lives and moved abroad alone, who walked away from twenty-year careers to start over as a complete novice, who launched businesses while pregnant and processing loss, who drove away from home with nothing but a car and a one-way road in front of them.

Their stories will make you laugh, catch your breath, and maybe, just maybe, make you believe that you can do the hard thing too.

Because here's what this podcast has learned from every single guest: courage is not the absence of fear. It is what happens when you decide that where you are going matters more than how scared you are to get there. And bravery? It is not reserved for the bold or the fearless. It lives in all of us, in the small moments just as much as the big ones, in the decision to start, to change, to trust yourself, to begin again.

And here's the thing almost every single guest has in common: at some point, they all thought they might be making a terrible mistake. The voice in their head said turn back, play it safe, who do you think you are? They did it anyway, and these are their stories.

This is This May Be a Bad Idea. Walk in the world with curiosity. Subscribe, share, and take the leap.