He graduated from Wabash College with a major in political science and a minor in speech rhetoric. After moving to Poland in 1991 as a volunteer with the WorldTeach program from Harvard University teaching English at a high school in Malbork and later at the Uniwersytet Gdański teaching English and political science. Goss hosted one of the first live, bilingual radio programs in Poland at Radio ARnet, "ARnet Ameryka". He later cooperated with the Polish funk band Blenders from 1995 to 1997. Other positions at this time included working as a consultant for Ernst & Young while finishing MBA studies in Gdansk.
Goss returned to the US in 1998 and taught marketing, management, political science and speech at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, later moving on a doctoral program at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in Bloomington.
Goss returned to Poland as a Fascell Fellow at the US Embassy in Warsaw in 2002/2003. The following academic year saw Goss return to the Uniwersytet Gdański, but he decided to move to Warsaw permanently in the summer of 2004 to begin a career in media.
Phil Goss was a guest on Europa da się lubić and has appeared on a variety of other Polish television programs such as Kawa czy herbata and Dzień dobry TVN. In 2006 he started hosting programs and doing English-language voice overs on TVN Lingua. His programs include: "Spikerzy z licensją do nauczania", "Chatter Box", "Therapidiom", "Slanguage" i "Bobby the Snail". Goss also does voice over work for MTV Europe, VH1 Europe, and MTV HD Europe, and appears in two productions for Telewizja Polska, "Londynczycy" and "Bliżej świata".