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Today on the Tearsheet Podcast, we're diving into a story that captures the evolution of modern finance — where professional athletes aren't just endorsing products, but building the infrastructure that empowers the next generation of wealth creators.

I'm joined by Sheldon Day, Co-Founder and President of The Player's Company, a collective of over 500 professional athletes and accredited investors who are rewriting the playbook on financial empowerment. As a NFL defensive tackle with the Washington Commanders and eight-year veteran, Sheldon understands firsthand the financial realities that athletes face both during and after their careers. 

The Players Company isn't just another investment club — it's a platform democratizing access to wealth-building tools once reserved for the ultra-wealthy, while providing financial education many athletes never received. Since 2019, TPC has facilitated investments in startups like ZenWTR, Teamworks, and Public.com, proving athletes can be sophisticated capital allocators when given the right resources.

We'll explore how Sheldon went from reading defensive formations to reading investment prospectuses, and how The Players Company is scaling to empower athletes across all sports to build generational wealth.

'We're changing the narrative on athletes being dumb money': The Player's Company

No deal reached in talks to avoid government shutdown, democratic donors, frustrated, say they are also motivated to fight Trump, and what's open or closed in a federal government shutdown.

This Morning with Gordon Deal September 30, 2025

Listen to an excerpt from the HOLIDAY EVER AFTER audiobook by Hannah Grace and narrated by Christine Lakin and Teddy Hamilton.

Holiday Ever After Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to the excerpt from the AFTER MIDNIGHT audiobook by Daphne Du Maurier and narrated by Owen Findlay, Elliot Cowan, Matt Addis, Cecilia Appiah, Ruth Lass, Sam Marks, and Hattie Morahan!

After Midnight Audiobook Excerpt

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Deutsch lernen (B1) | Patient Erde: Zustand kritisch

On this week's live show, we're having a sci-fi roundtable discussion with Matt Arnold (Outer Lands, Eden), Mark Sable (Boxed), and Marc Guggenheim (The Adventures of Ulysses Monarch)!

Comic Book Club's Sci-Fi Roundtable With Marc Guggenheim, Mark Sable, And Matt Arnold

Government shutdown begins, Trump tells Generals the military will be used to fight ‘enemy within,’ and NYC police officers given award for helping to deliver baby during rush hour traffic.

This Morning with Gordon Deal October 01, 2025

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What has led to the latest government shutdown? Lindsey McPherson from the Washington Times takes us behind the headline.

Government shuts down as Dems demand health care provisions in funding bill


In this episode, we talk about the importance of sociology to Annie Ernaux’s Nobel-Prize-winning literary project, specifically focusing on the influence of Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of ‘habitus’. Our special guest, Clare Carlisle, Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London, introduces the concept, explaining what Bourdieu hoped to achieve by coining a new term to designate the idea of a collective disposition or class sensibility. Together, focusing on the opening of The Years (2008), Ernaux’s magnum opus, we consider the ways in which the book’s treatment of self, class, and nation can be read as ‘applied Bourdieu’. 

Our philosophical starting-point is a chapter by Karl Maton entitled ‘Habitus’ and published in Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts, ed. Michael Grenfell, 2012. 

Our literary focus is on pages x-51 of Annie Ernaux’s The Years in Alison L. Strayer’s translation (Fitzcarraldo, 2018).

Hosts: 

Scarlett Baron, Associate Professor of English at University College London.
Alice Harberd, PhD student in the Philosophy Department at University College London.

Guest: 
Clare Carlisle, Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London.

Keywords: 

#AnnieErnaux #TheYears #LesAnnées #NobelPrize #Literature #Autofiction #contemporaryculture #sociology #PierreBourdieu #aesthetics #philosophy #philosophyofmind #theself #interdisciplinarity #contemporarywriting #RachelCusk #Outlinetrilogy #class #habitus #subjectivity #sharedsubjectivity


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