Rick Phillips on Clubhouse

Bio

Phillips hails from New York City where he enjoyed a successful 15 years in Marketing and PR, before the journalism bug bit him leading him to launch two culture magazines: the award-winning Black Book and CITY.

After selling both publications, Phillips left Manhattan for the Phoenix desert.

Once arriving in Phoenix, Phillips launched a new shelter magazine, Desert Living. A few years later, Phillips launched his 2nd publication in the desert named ITEM, which focused on life in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Scottsdale. He subsequently sold to Media That Deelivers, the publishers of Arizona Foothills Magazine.

Not losing his taste for media and journalism, Phillips next launched the very influential EATERAZ.com, a food website that reported on the local food scene, a blog before there were bloggers. Its stories went out to over 10,000 registered subscribers each day.

In 2009 Phillips launched a company to produce large-scale culinary events. Over a decade later the events grew into two-day festivals, visited by over 40,000 people!

With the advent of Covid-19, and events being cancelled, Phillips pivoted back into journalism, but this time, by creating a content production company.

Partnering up with long time friend, they formed Criminal Minded Media, a content company creating journalistically-driven, non-fiction, episodic stories. Some for podcasts, some for Television and some for feature length documentaries.