Take off your sunglasses indoors… unless you’re hiding a drug addiction?! Says Triple M’s Margaux Parker.  

Oh, and maybe don’t Zoom your way through your KPI meeting in the gym… just a thought! Host Jodie Bache-McLean joins Margaux to discuss the difference between manners evolving, and where they’ve been thrown out the window altogether.

About your host, Jodie Bache McLean from June Dally Watkins and Chic Management 

“Miss Dally was and remains one of the most significant women in my life. She was my boss, mentor and cherished leader for the past 36 years.” - Jodie

Jodie has been a part of June Dally Watkins for over 40 years, after her mother enrolled her in a course to help with her confidence when she was a teenager - Jodie then started working in the model agency as a booker only seven years later. Jodie now manages the business and has successfully navigated the Brisbane operation for the past 33 years. 

Offering specialised knowledge, personal experience and expertise, Jodie is perfectly suited to tell us what June Dally Watkins would do. 

Keeping your hat or sunnies on indoors isn’t something Gen Z can get behind either, says model and Occupational Therapy student Grace Hayden. It’s just a big, fat NOOOOOO. 

As Gracie hops into the hot-seat with host Jodie Bache-McLean, she reveals her expert timing tips for maximum respectfulness. 

  About your host, Jodie Bache McLean from June Dally Watkins and Chic Management 

“Miss Dally was and remains one of the most significant women in my life. She was my boss, mentor and cherished leader for the past 36 years.” - Jodie

Jodie has been a part of June Dally Watkins for over 40 years, after her mother enrolled her in a course to help with her confidence when she was a teenager - Jodie then started working in the model agency as a booker only seven years later. Jodie now manages the business and has successfully navigated the Brisbane operation for the past 33 years. 

Offering specialised knowledge, personal experience and expertise, Jodie is perfectly suited to tell us what June Dally Watkins would do. 

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Embrace the honesty, as Brisbane’s Lady Mayoress Nina Schrinner shares her manners missteps, hacks and top tips for making a good impression…. and apologises to anyone she’s ever offended with a stray ‘darling’. 

Join host Jodie Bache-McLean as she talks her way into one of Nina’s much-loved, hand-written letters (but she better not expect it too soon!)

 About your host, Jodie Bache McLean from June Dally Watkins and Chic Management 

“Miss Dally was and remains one of the most significant women in my life. She was my boss, mentor and cherished leader for the past 36 years.” - Jodie

Jodie has been a part of June Dally Watkins for over 40 years, after her mother enrolled her in a course to help with her confidence when she was a teenager - Jodie then started working in the model agency as a booker only seven years later. Jodie now manages the business and has successfully navigated the Brisbane operation for the past 33 years. 

Offering specialised knowledge, personal experience and expertise, Jodie is perfectly suited to tell us what June Dally Watkins would do. 

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Get the lowdown from model, poet, actor and indigenous educator, Guyala Bayles, as she argues that even the beautiful people don’t get a free pass on sunglasses indoors.

Discover why gratitude should be everyone’s priority and why you should never, ever unleash the ‘hun’ on social media.

About your host, Jodie Bache McLean from June Dally Watkins and Chic Management 

“Miss Dally was and remains one of the most significant women in my life. She was my boss, mentor and cherished leader for the past 36 years.” - Jodie

Offering specialised knowledge, personal experience and expertise, Jodie is perfectly suited to tell us what June Dally Watkins would do. 

Master networker or manners aficionado? Bonus Episode with Steve Haddan

When old-style courtesies can get you into hot water, it’s a matter of reading the room, says comedian, sports journalist and author Steve Haddan.

But let’s be under no illusions here, there can also be an ulterior motive to good manners … it’s all part of the hustle!

“Miss Dally was and remains one of the most significant women in my life. She was my boss, mentor and cherished leader for the past 36 years.” - Jodie

Offering specialised knowledge, personal experience and expertise, Jodie is perfectly suited to tell us what June Dally Watkins would do. 

Discover Dianne Cant OAM’s etiquette absolutes, as she shares highlights from a lifelong love of manners with host Jodie Bache-McLean. 

Dianne reveals why beautiful gestures should always be acknowledged, and cautions against the most obnoxious modern habits (spoiler alert – if you’re on the escalator at David Jones, you might want to put your phone away now). 

About your guest, Dianne Cant 

Dianne has 55 years’ experience instigating and developing formats for Australia’s Fashion Industry, in awards programmes, fashion shows, personal styling, models, retailers, education, fashion design students, events and private clients. She also held the position of Fashion Manager of the RAQ Fashion Design Awards for 29 years and later the NRA Australian Fashion Design Awards as shown on Channel 9 and Channel 7 over the three decades of these major fashion events. As the lead fashion/style educator for June Dally-Watkins, Modelling and Deportment school for 52 years, there is no one more suited to discuss all things fashion with! 

“Miss Dally was and remains one of the most significant women in my life. She was my boss, mentor and cherished leader for the past 36 years.” - Jodie

Offering specialised knowledge, personal experience and expertise, Jodie is perfectly suited to tell us what June Dally Watkins would do. 

There’s no room for doubt in this hot-seat episode, as TV’s Damien Anthony Rossi delivers his verdict on Jodie Bache-McLean’s manners quiz.

According to Mr Hollywood in Oz, certain things are just unacceptable, unless you’re Alex Perry. And elevator etiquette? Well, that’s a whole other episode!

About your guest, Damien Anthony Rossi 

Known as Mr Hollywood in Oz, charismatic media personality Damien Anthony Rossi first arrived in Brisbane from his hometown of Los Angeles in 1990 and has since worn many hats professionally. Originally a film and television Casting Director with his company Rossi Casting Group, Damien made the move to the other side of the camera in 2002 as a TV Presenter for Channel 7 which ultimately led to becoming a cast member on the network’s popular weekly travel/lifestyle program The Great South East. In 2009, Rossi took over the reins of The Sunday Mail’s iconic social pages reporting on Queensland’s biggest and best events and continued in this role until the demise of the social pages due to COVID in 2020. Damien currently serves as the Brisbane Social Editor for the new Gold Coast Magazine which debuted in July 2021.

About your host, Jodie Bache McLean from June Dally Watkins and Chic Management 

“Miss Dally was and remains one of the most significant women in my life. She was my boss, mentor and cherished leader for the past 36 years.” - Jodie

Jodie has been a part of June Dally Watkins for over 40 years, after her mother enrolled her in a course to help with her confidence when she was a teenager - Jodie then started working in the model agency as a booker only seven years later. Jodie now manages the business and has successfully navigated the Brisbane operation for the past 33 years. 

Offering specialised knowledge, personal experience and expertise, Jodie is perfectly suited to tell us what June Dally Watkins would do. 

Join gal pals Jodie Bache-McLean and emotional fitness expert, Cynthia Morton, as they talk etiquette ideals versus how we REALLY behave. 

Find out how Cynthia sidesteps a forgotten name (when Jodie isn’t around to save her bacon), the modern habits that make her a ‘bit scratchy’ … and whether the rules are different for husbands.

For the past two decades, Cynthia’s nationally award-winning Emotional Fitness techniques have earned the following recognition.  A Pride of Australia Medal , An Australian of The Year Award, An Award of Distinction for Services to Humanity, The Prime Ministers Award for outstanding contribution in drug and alcohol endeavours.

She is not only a successful published Australian author of six books she also works nationally one on one with private clients as well as offering Emotional Fitness workshops, Body Love Classes and keynote addresses.  Cynthia has also been a regular guest on Channel 9’s new series Destination Happiness and back in the year 2000 in the early days of her career, she was a panellist on a midday TV show called Beauty and The Beast along with Ita Buttrose and Lisa Wilkinson sharing her Emotional Fitness tips or Australian viewers.

About your host, Jodie Bache McLean from June Dally Watkins and Chic Management:

“Miss Dally was and remains one of the most significant women in my life. She was my boss, mentor and cherished leader for the past 36 years.” - Jodie

Jodie has been a part of June Dally Watkins for over 40 years, after her mother enrolled her in a course to help with her confidence when she was a teenager - Jodie then started working in the model agency as a booker only seven years later. Jodie now manages the business and has successfully navigated the Brisbane operation for the past 33 years. 

What are you hiding behind those sunglasses?!

Tune in as Australia’s matriarch of manners, Jodie Bache-McLean, puts writer and journalist Lisa Clifford - daughter of the one and only June Dally-Watkins - in the etiquette hot seat.

Find out how a smile and a squeeze can get you out of many a tight spot, and why every meal (however unseasoned!) deserves our wholehearted appreciation.

About your guest, Lisa Clifford: 

Lisa Clifford grew up in Sydney. She moved to Italy when she was sixteen and returned to Australia after winning a scholarship to the Australian, Film, Television and Radio School. Following a career in journalism that includes reporting for 2GB, Mix FM and Channel 10 news, Lisa was associate producer of Channel 10 Late News. Throughout her career, she continued to travel to Italy, corresponding for 2UE, ABC’s Radio National and the Voice of America News Service. Lisa contributes opinion pieces, guides and lifestyle articles on Italy to The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, Gourmet Traveller and a range of other magazines and newspapers. She is the author of Walking Sydney, The Promise - an Italian Romance, Death in the Mountains (winner of the Victorian Premier’s Award for writing about Italians) and Naples – A Way of Love (Australian Illustrated Book of the Year Award). Lisa lives in Florence, Italy.

About your host, Jodie Bache McLean from June Dally Watkins and Chic Management:

“Miss Dally was and remains one of the most significant women in my life. She was my boss, mentor and cherished leader for the past 36 years.” - Jodie

Jodie has been a part of June Dally Watkins for over 40 years, after her mother enrolled her in a course to help with her confidence when she was a teenager - Jodie then started working in the model agency as a booker only seven years later. Jodie now manages the business and has successfully navigated the Brisbane operation for the past 33 years. 

"I said pet, I said love, I said please."

Quirk of personality, social misstep or downright rude? Join Australia’s grand dame of etiquette, Jodie Bache-Mclean as she puts the frocking fabulous Leigh Buchanan on the spot.

Discover why being hit by a bus can come in handy and what can happen when a ‘darl’ goes wrong… as Jodie and Leigh put a rude world to rights!

Leigh Buchanan became runner-up of the inaugural season of Project Runway Australia following 2 decades of fashion industry experience, graduating from Mt Gravatt TAFE's illustrious fashion college and working for some of the biggest names in the business. 

Transitioning into theatre wardrobe and costume design in 2012, Leigh quickly established them-self as an in-demand talent, collaborating with numerous companies including Queensland Theatre, La Boite Theatre Co, Shake & Stir, Victorian Opera, La Boite and Opera Queensland. 

Production highlights include costume design for Lady Beatle (The Little Red Company), Dracula and Wuthering Heights (shake & stir theatre co), Spring Awakening (Oscar Theatre Co); and creating costumes for productions including Queensland Theatre’s Ladies in Black [Helpmann and Greenroom Award-nominated for costumes], The Wider Earth, Brisbane, Romeo & Juliet and more.

Leigh’s film and television credits include creating costumes for Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis (2022 - 6 time Academy Award winner Catherine Martin), Leah Purcell’s - The Drover’s Wife (2021 Tess Schofield), Aquaman (2018 Kym Barrett) and Netflix series’ (Tidelands and God’s Favourite Idiot), dressing names including Melissa McCarthy, Emmanuelle Beart (My Mistress with Angus Strathie), Rebecca Gibney (Wanted), Tina Arena, Penelope Cruz, Amber Heard, Elsa Pataky, Meow Meow, Rhonda Burchmore and many more. 

Following the success of Project Runway, Leigh’s D-grade celebrity led to appearances on Adam Hills’ In Gordon St Tonight, writing fashion columns for print media, a weekly radio show co-hosting with Meshel Laurie and his own stage debut in his sold-out cabaret show “The Devil Wears Leigh Buchanan” December 2014 at the Brisbane Powerhouse and again, back by popular demand, in June 2017 at Queensland Cabaret Festival.

About your host, Jodie Bache McLean from June Dally Watkins and Chic Management:

“Miss Dally was and remains one of the most significant women in my life. She was my boss, mentor and cherished leader for the past 36 years.” - Jodie

Jodie has been a part of June Dally Watkins for over 40 years, after her mother enrolled her in a course to help with her confidence when she was a teenager - Jodie then started working in the model agency as a booker only seven years later. Jodie now manages the business and has successfully navigated the Brisbane operation for the past 33 years.