Josephine Kuhn

Josephine Kuhn, born in 1993, is a writer, podcaster (co-host of the major Danish podcast Fries Before Guys), and a new mother who lives in a three-generation household with her parents, girlfriend, and daughter. In this conversation with priest Sørine Godfredsen, she traces her own path from a combative, justice-obsessed child through a period of anxiety and collapse in her twenties to a hard-won sense of strength. The episode is less a self-help narrative than a careful excavation of what has changed between generations—and what has not—when it comes to resistance, sadness, and the conditions under which life force returns.

The young provocateur and the shame of being seen

Kuhn describes herself as a child who was "incredibly brave" and "a little unsuitable." She was angry at authorities, in constant conflict with teachers, and was called "the family's provocateur." She was pulled out of handwork class and escalated a dispute with her high school English teacher all the way to the rector. But the turning point came in a student conversation with her Danish teacher, Lotte, who told her plainly: "You have to think about what the others think about you. You talk all the time, you have an attitude to everything. And you don't always have to express it." Kuhn remembers feeling not anger but "completely ashamed." That shame was not about being wrong—it was about being seen