Bestselling Author · Award-Winning Producer · Omni-Media Architect
I write books, host broadcasts, and build sovereign media infrastructure — helping creators, communities, schools, nonprofits, churches, and NGOs own their stories, platforms, message, and future.
Read my books, explore my broadcasts, train through Media Company in a Box, or work with me directly. This page shows the full range — pick whatever fits why you came.
Current Field Base: Limbe, Cameroon · Sovereign Hub Nº 001: King Black Welfare Association · Global Focus: Creator and Community Ownership
This homepage shows the full world of Joshua T. Berglan and The World's Mayor Experience — books, broadcasts, the Media Company in a Box course, consulting, and community hubs. The Start Here page helps you pick the right door based on who you are: reader, listener, creator, student, future facilitator, school, nonprofit, church, NGO, partner, or supporter.
Definition: Joshua T. Berglan — "The World's Mayor" — is a bestselling author, award-winning producer, and Omni-Media Architect who publishes books and broadcasts and helps people and communities build sovereign, owned media through Media Company in a Box, certification, consulting, and local media hubs.
Books, broadcasts, training, consulting, and community hubs — all part of one mission: helping people own their story and their media. Choose where you want to start.
Four bestselling books on media ownership, transformation, identity, and turning lived experience into a body of work.
Open the Bookshelf Watch & ListenShows, interviews, conversations, and field dispatches — the living media network behind The World's Mayor Experience.
Enter the Broadcast Hub Learn & BuildThe flagship course and framework for turning your story, gifts, and skills into an owned media platform with real revenue pathways.
Explore the Framework HireOne-on-one consulting and media architecture for founders, leaders, creators, and organizations who want a system built with them.
Start a Conversation PartnerThe hub model where communities become channels, creators become shows, and local people own the media economy they build.
Explore the Network The MissionThe on-the-ground work in Cameroon and Uganda — anchored by Sovereign Hub Nº 001, King Black Welfare Association in Limbe — bringing media education, ownership, and economic opportunity to real communities.
See the Field WorkBefore the course and the frameworks, there is the work itself — the writing and the broadcasts that prove the mission has been lived, not just taught.
Four bestselling books form the foundation of everything else — on media sovereignty, personal transformation, human identity, storytelling, and creator-owned infrastructure. They are the proof and the philosophy behind the frameworks.
The Broadcast Hub holds the conversations, interviews, testimony, spoken word, and films that make up the living media network of The World's Mayor Experience. It is where you hear the voice behind the mission.
Media Company in a Box is the flagship course and framework. It turns your story, gifts, and skills into an owned media platform — and it has a clear path from beginner to certified facilitator. Each step has one job.
For anyone curious or new. Start with your story, your phone, your computer, and free tools — no cost, no pressure.
Start FreeThe serious pathway. Complete the modules, do the assignments, and pass by building a real, working Media Company in a Box.
Enter the CourseFor qualified builders who want to teach the system through workshops, cohorts, schools, churches, NGOs, and community hubs.
Train to TeachThe larger model where trained facilitators, host organizations, and local hubs join a creator-first media economy.
View the ModelIt is not a participation certificate. You earn it with real, reviewable proof: a clear message, video, audio, written content, your own platform, a multimedia blog, a product or offer, credibility assets, a payment pathway, a safety filter, a Builder Index, and a final capstone. You prove you can build the system before you are trusted to teach it.
Want it built with you? Joshua works one-on-one with founders, leaders, creators, and organizations as an Omni-Media Architect — mapping your platform, content, offers, and ownership into one clear system.
He also brings Media Company in a Box into existing spaces: schools, computer labs, colleges, churches, ministries, nonprofits, NGOs, youth programs, refugee organizations, and community hubs — so your people own their stories, platforms, and revenue.
The proof the system works is already live. King Black Welfare Association — a Limbe not-for-profit with 4,000+ students trained and thousands of jobs created — is the first satellite hub of The Sovereign Franchise, where I lead on-the-ground workshops that turn a trusted training centre into a media hub the community owns.
It is not aid. It is architecture. Ownership stays in Limbe — the curriculum, the channel, and the revenue.
The title is not political. It was born from a moment of clarity in 2018 when I realized my work was never meant to serve one city, one party, one nation, or one audience.
The phrase that came to me was simple: "Your constituents are global. Your infrastructure is media."
To me, being The World's Mayor means serving people through media, storytelling, education, economic empowerment, and sovereign infrastructure — building platforms where the unheard can be heard and communities can own their own narratives.
Simple answers for first-time visitors, readers, partners, students, schools, search engines, and AI discovery tools.
Read the books. Hear the broadcasts. Learn the system. Hire the architect. Bring it to your people. However you start, the goal is the same: people and communities owning their story, their platform, and their future.