{"id":2105,"date":"2025-04-29T09:31:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wannaflex.nl\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2025-04-29T12:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:08:27","slug":"where-it-all-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wannaflex.nl\/en\/where-it-all-began\/","title":{"rendered":"Where it all began."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From Truck Driver to Founder: The Story of Sjoerd van der Meulen.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At WannaFlex, we believe that <strong>every career is a journey<\/strong> \u2014 sometimes with unexpected turns, but always full of potential. Recently, our founder <strong>Sjoerd van der Meulen<\/strong> shared his inspiring story during an EO TEDx Talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What started behind the wheel of a truck evolved into the founding of WannaFlex: a thriving IT recruitment agency built on ambition, resilience, and vision. Sjoerd\u2019s journey is a perfect reflection of two of our core beliefs: <strong>Managing Potential<\/strong> and <strong>Challenging Your Career<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his talk, Sjoerd takes you along for the ride \u2014 showing that your background doesn&#8217;t define your future, but your mindset does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ready to be inspired?<\/strong><br>Watch the full TED Talk and discover how a career, when challenged the right way, can take you further than you ever imagined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#ChallengeYourCareer #ManagingPotential #WannaFlex<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WannaFlex Founder Sjoerd van der Meulen at the Anual EO TedX event\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZKmG3VvuhcI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Truck Driver to Founder: The Story of Sjoerd van der Meulen. At WannaFlex, we believe that every career is a journey \u2014 sometimes with unexpected turns, but always full of potential. Recently, our founder Sjoerd van der Meulen shared his inspiring story during an EO TEDx Talk. What started behind the wheel of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9403,9411],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-en","category-stories-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wannaflex.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wannaflex.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wannaflex.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wannaflex.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wannaflex.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wannaflex.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"https:\/\/wannaflex.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wannaflex.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wannaflex.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wannaflex.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}