Andrew:

Below is how I plan to embed the SoundCloud player on my website, so that it appears below a habitat photo that has been separately embedded. Note that I’ve added a code snippet to remove the artwork from the SoundCloud player:

You may just want to pull embed code from the podcast on SoundCloud itself, choosing the player option that includes a small image to the left:

Note that SoundCloud has a player embed option that displays a large image, but that image ends up being cropped and blurry … a SoundCloud bug that bothers lots of creators: