Life & Work with Jennifer Casner of Lansing

Today we’d like to introduce you to Jennifer Casner.

Hi Jennifer, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
My name is Jennifer Casner. I am the mother of eight children five biological and three stepchildren but we don’t use the word step. I married my husband almost 4 years ago prior to meeting my husband. I was a drug addict. I went into recovery in 2015. And have been there ever since because recovery never ends. It just keeps going before meeting my husband. I decided I wanted more out of my life now that I And have been there every since because recovery never ends. It just keeps going, before meeting my husband. I decided I wanted more out of my life now that I was clean, so I went to school for many different things. In 2019, Became a certified medical assistant. I met my husband in 2020 he was a single man raising three kids on his own. After meeting, we never separated. I knew he was the one we moved to Tennessee together.. Tennessee is where we opened our first tattoo shop. Its name is CDM in studio. Then for family reasons, we decided to move home to Michigan where we again opened up, our very own shop in the hive and downtown Lansing. We named it CDM ink studio. My husband is a tattoo artist, and I am a piercer, and I’m also a full-time medical assistant through university of Michigan Sparrow.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
It has been anything but a smooth road. There has been many obstacles through divorces drug addiction. I mean, you name it we’ve been through it. Once we decided to put God first, everything got better

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I’m a full-time medical assistant for Sparrow hospital and I work at the Charlotte outpatient office, And on the side, I work with my husband and her tattoo studio as a piercer. I’m a proud mother and I’m known for my funny outgoing personality. I’ve always been a giver my entire life. I’m one that one I’m down. I don’t give up. I keep fighting.

Where do you see things going in the next 5-10 years?
I see myself continuing through school. I would like to get my RN and be a traveling nurse. My husband is also going to go back to school and major in art and then we plan to travel the world and do tattooing and nurse stuff.