Accolade Global Film Competition
Award of Recognition — Christian
The Devil Inside Me
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Joshua T. Berglan is an Omni-Media Architect building a living Media Company in a Box—books, broadcasts, podcasting, voiceover, education, professional services, and a field mission designed to help people own their stories and opportunity.
He is a four-time #1 international bestselling author, an eight-time film festival award winner, a UN speaker, and a SCORE Certified Mentor with more than 126 IMDb credits. Every accepted engagement is led directly by Joshua. Commercial clients commission full-value work. Sponsors help fund books, workshops, media education, and practical services for people he is serving in Cameroon.
Three clear paths. The work is tailored, direct, and never handed to a hidden agency team.
Media architecture, strategy, broadcasting, podcast development, festival-recognized voiceover, workshops, speaking, and mission-aligned implementation for founders and organizations.
View Professional Services 02 Creators & Community BuildersUse Media Company in a Box to turn your story, knowledge, content, intellectual property, offers, and audience into a connected platform with an owned center.
Explore the Framework 03 Donors & Mission PartnersHelp place books, workshops, phone-first media education, and practical media services into the hands of people Joshua is serving in Cameroon.
Open the GoFundMeJoshua T. Berglan has won eight international film festival awards and received three additional nominations, all in 2021, for the documentary and web series adaptation of The Devil Inside Me and for his podcast work.
He also holds eleven professional certifications, including a SCORE Certified Mentor credential and ten specializations completed in 2025 through the Council on Foreign Relations, Oxford, Michigan, Toronto, Emory, Macquarie, Colorado Boulder, the American Psychological Association, and Google.
Award of Recognition — Christian
The Devil Inside Me
Award of Recognition — Best Voice Over
The Devil Inside Me
Silver Award — Best Documentary
The Devil Inside Me
Award of Prestige — Best Voice Over
The Devil Inside Me
Festival Award — Best Podcast
A Conversation with Joshua T Berglan & Joe Schirmer
April Award — Best Web Series Pilot (Main Category)
The Devil Inside Me
BCIFF Award of Excellence — Best Web Series Pilot
The Devil Inside Me
Best Narrative Documentary
The Devil Inside Me
Best Documentary
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Best Documentary
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Best Short Film
The Devil Inside Me
The World's Mayor is not a niche brand. It is one connected media company built around a body of work, an owned platform, and a mission.
The origin, scars, faith, recovery, service, and lived experience that power the message.
Read the Origin 02Frameworks, memoirs, and intellectual property built to endure beyond a social feed.
Open the Bookshelf 03Shows, films, interviews, conversations, and original formats across a creator-owned media network.
Enter the Broadcast Hub 04Field dispatches, media frameworks, mission updates, and lessons from work happening now.
Read the Dispatches 05Direct strategy and production for people and institutions ready to build serious media infrastructure.
Explore Services 06The Sovereign Franchise: 500 sovereign media hubs being built under Joshua's direct orchestration.
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The Sovereign Entrepreneur's Guide to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Build a creator-owned media platform around your story, knowledge, gifts, talents, intellectual property, audience, content, and offers—without surrendering the center of your work to rented platforms.
Three owned destinations make the work easy to explore without forcing you through a maze.
Explore the complete literary collection, including Media Company in a Box, Unmasking Humanity, The Devil Inside Me, and more.
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Enter the shows, interviews, films, documentaries, podcasts, and original media formats behind The World's Mayor Experience—including the Lonely Wolf award-winning podcast episode with Joe Schirmer.
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Subscribe FreeJoshua works selectively because he is a one-person operation serving in the field. When the fit is right, the work receives his direct attention.
Clarify the message, organize the intellectual property, design the content ecosystem, own the center, and connect attention to meaningful outcomes.
Voiceover recognized with Best Voice Over honors at the Impact Docs Awards and the Vegas Movie Awards, podcast hosting recognized with the Lonely Wolf Best Podcast award, plus interviews, format development, media production, and on-camera storytelling.
Keynotes, Media Company in a Box workshops, institutional training, founder guidance, and community-centered media education.
Joshua has taught globally for eleven years. In Cameroon, he personally taught Media Company in a Box and Cell Phone Sovereignty across Limbe, Tiko, Souza, Bafut, Bamenda, and Yaoundé.
Books, workshops, and services are being given to people in need. Sponsorship does not discount the work; it funds access where the people receiving it cannot pay.






King Black Welfare Association leads locally; Joshua leads the mission and the framework.
Read the Field Record Souza Field DeploymentGrace Digital Solutions leads locally; Joshua leads the mission and the framework.
Read the Field Record Nakivale Field RecordKairos Transformative Lives—formerly Metanoia Hope for Tomorrow—leads locally; Joshua leads the mission and the framework. Nakivale remains a planned replication node.
Read the Field RecordTheir work. Their credit.
Joshua is giving this work away to people in need while serving in Cameroon. The GoFundMe gives donors and organizations a direct way to sponsor the work without reducing its professional value.
Visual poetry created in Nakivale Refugee Settlement using the Media Company in a Box framework.
Created by Plamedi Wivine.
Created by Stella Kashera.
Media sovereignty, human identity, recovery, redemption, creator education, and global accessibility.

The complete sovereign media framework.

A journey into the heart of being.

Frameworks for content creation.

A memoir of addiction and forgiveness. Second edition; the screen adaptation won 8 festival awards.

From wreckage to redemption.

The framework in Hindi.
The name “The World's Mayor” is not a claim to office. It is a commitment to show up, connect people, and serve across boundaries.
Joshua's service to underserved communities began at age 16 and has continued through decades of advocacy, media, mentoring, recovery work, education, and community engagement. He has taught globally for eleven years and now operates independently while serving in Cameroon.
He is the sole architect and orchestrator of The Sovereign Franchise, building 500 sovereign media hubs worldwide under his direct orchestration. It is not aid. It is architecture.
Joshua T. Berglan, known as The World's Mayor, is an Omni-Media Architect, Advocacy Actuary, four-time number-one international bestselling author, award-winning producer with more than 126 IMDb credits, award-winning voiceover artist, award-winning podcast host, UN speaker, and SCORE Certified Mentor. His service to underserved people began at age 16, and he has taught globally for eleven years.
Joshua T. Berglan has won eight film festival awards and received three additional nominations, all in 2021. His wins include the Accolade Global Film Competition Award of Recognition, the Impact Docs Awards Award of Recognition for Best Voice Over, the Virgin Spring Cinefest Silver Award for Best Documentary, the Vegas Movie Awards Award of Prestige for Best Voice Over, the Lonely Wolf International Film Festival Festival Award for Best Podcast, two awards from the Beyond the Curve International Film Festival for Best Web Series Pilot, and the Bright International Film Festival award for Best Narrative Documentary. His nominations came from World Film Carnival Singapore, Vesuvius International Film Festival, and 4th Dimension International Film Festival.
Joshua T. Berglan is a SCORE Certified Mentor and holds ten professional specializations and certificates completed in 2025, issued by the Council on Foreign Relations, the University of Oxford Saïd Business School, the University of Michigan, the University of Toronto, Emory University, Macquarie University, the University of Colorado Boulder, the American Psychological Association, and Google. Subject areas include global affairs, artificial intelligence, management consulting, leadership, public relations, digital marketing, gender analytics, and organizational storytelling.
Media Company in a Box is Joshua T. Berglan's framework for turning story, knowledge, gifts, talents, intellectual property, audience, content, and offers into a connected media platform the creator owns. The phone is the studio; the owned platform is the center.
Organizations can commission Joshua T. Berglan for media architecture, strategy, broadcast and podcast development, voiceover, workshops, speaking, or mission-aligned implementation. Every accepted engagement is led directly by Joshua.
Contributions help sponsor books, workshops, phone-first media education, and practical media services for people and communities Joshua T. Berglan is serving in Cameroon. Commercial services remain full-value professional engagements; sponsorship funds access for people who cannot pay.
Joshua T. Berglan is the sole architect and orchestrator of The Sovereign Franchise. He is building 500 sovereign media hubs worldwide under his direct orchestration. Field deployment partners lead locally; Joshua leads the mission and the framework.
TheWorldsMayor.com is the introduction. JoshuaTBerglan.com is the full platform, containing the complete bookshelf, the Broadcast Hub, professional services, training, field records, and The Sovereign Franchise. Both sites represent the same person and the same body of work.
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